New HD Video File Sharing Site: ExposureRoom

[lars2923]

Have any of you given any thought to protecting your intellectual property given the ease with which anyone can download your HD footage and reuse it?

Once you put something on the web the world owns and it worse yet thinks it does.

Vimeo allows the owner to set protection on the vid.
for example, embedding can only be done from sites authorized.
Sharing allowed or not allowed, etc..

[Papa Bear]

The creator always owns the rights to their intellectual properties! The Policing part is the the hardest part. Once on the web it is NOT the worlds, it is your on the web!

[The Publisher]

We plaster our name all over the videos. I know many file sharing programs auto port over videos from other sites, sort of like a swirling vortex big black hole of into a 5th video dimension.

One of the things nice about Vimeo is we can see "referrers" or where the video has been ported over to. If a competitor or someone who has been unseeming did it, of course we would put an abrupt end to their use, but otherwise, on a case by case basis, we are ok with it although we reserve all rights.

Now if someone is making $ off it, that certainly would change things, but if someone wants to use videos to promote diving and dive tourism to regions we've reviewed, isn't sharing great times such a great part of this sport?

[nautilusvideo]

Vimeo allows the owner to set protection on the vid. for example, embedding can only be done from sites authorized.
Sharing allowed or not allowed, etc..

Lars, unfortunately not true. Anyone can easily download your video to their laptop and do with it as they wish.

The creator always owns the rights to their intellectual properties! The Policing part is the the hardest part. Once on the web it is NOT the worlds, it is your on the web!

PapaBear, agreed BUT as you know what's legal and what people do are two different things.

I only bring this subject up because I think that few if any people give any thought at all to what happens to their video once it's posted and how easy it is to misappropriate. Had this discussion with a colleague of mine about his video on Vimeo and to prove my point pulled down his HD short, cut it and sent it back to him in HD and with little if any picture degradation. Got his attention real quick.

[Papa Bear]

It's called exposure! If you find a piece in a commercial piece then you have been damaged and there are remedies! If not then water mark it or don't post it, but you lose exposure!

[lars2923]

Lars, unfortunately not true. Anyone can easily download your video to their laptop and do with it as they wish.

If you have the capability, try using the Crystal River Manatees as a test.
If you can and can show me, I have to then question the controls
Vimeo provides..


Thanx,
Lars

[nautilusvideo]

If you have the capability, try using the Crystal River Manatees as a test.
If you can and can show me, I have to then question the controls
Vimeo provides..

Lars, sorry I got in late. Please PM me with a link to the clip you wish me to download and your email. I'll edit out a short portion and email it back to you.

Regards,
Rick

[lars2923]

nautilusvideo downloaded and presented me with a clip of a video
I thought was secured from Vimeo.

It could be my misunderstanding of the controls or it could be
Vimeo does not lock downloading... My ignorance.

Thanks nautilusvideo for showing me that it is possible to download,
edit and use any portion of my video somewhere else.. No credit for
my work..

Photographers and videographers should look into this further
if this is something that is commonly done, taking other peoples
work, and how to protect our work...

How do the big studios do it? Some umbrella clause?

Lars

[The Publisher]

We put our name in the lower left of our videos, and the end has our copyright notice on it.

[nautilusvideo]

We put our name in the lower left of our videos, and the end has our copyright notice on it.

Care to send a link to one of your online videos?