How to Download and Upload Reative Commons on Youtube

On this page we describe the 2 licensing options provided past YouTube for content uploaded to its service, and propose an additional 3rd option for users wanting more than flexibility for their content.

Alternately this content tin can be viewed as a PDF file: How to – utilise a CC licence on YouTube (PDF 917KB)

Option A – The Standard YouTube licence

This licence is 'All Rights Reserved', granting provisions for YouTube to display the content, and YouTube's visitors to stream the content. This ways that the content may be streamed from YouTube but specifically forbids downloading, accommodation, and redistribution, except where otherwise licensed.

When uploading your content to YouTube information technology will automatically utilize the Standard YouTube licence. You tin bank check this by clicking on Advanced Settings and looking at the dropdown box 'License and rights ownership'.

Choice B – The YouTube CC By licence

The Artistic Eatables, CC BY licence gives permission that, so long equally the work is attributed, anyone may:

• Adjust — remix, transform, and build upon the material
• for whatsoever purpose, fifty-fifty commercially.

In lodge to be eligible to marking your YouTube video with a Creative Commons licence it must consist entirely of content created by you or cleared under the CC Past licence. Some examples of such cleared content are:

• Your originally created content.
• Other videos marked with a CC By licence.
• Videos or other content in the public domain / CC0.

How to cheque/change the licence on your YouTube video

When uploading your content to YouTube it will automatically apply the Standard YouTube licence. If you are logged into your account, you lot tin alter this past clicking on the 'Edit Video' push underneath your video and then clicking on the 'Avant-garde' tab. Click on the dropdown box 'License and rights ownership' and select the 'Creative Eatables – Attribution' option. This will then mark your content as CC BY.

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If y'all have multiple videos on YouTube that yous would like to change from the Standard licence to the CC BY:

1. Become to the YouTube Studio and brand sure you're logged in to your account.
2. Select the video or multiple videos you want to update. A black bar will announced at the top of your video list confirming the number of videos selected and drop-downwards menus to either 'Edit' the selection or 'Add to playlist'.
3. Click on the 'Edit' driblet-down push button and select 'Licence & rights direction'.
4. This will then offering the option to select either the Standard YouTube licence or the Creative Eatables – Attribution licence. Once you've chosen your licence click on the blue 'UPDATE VIDEOS' button to the far correct of the elevation tab.
5. A box will pop upwardly with the following text "Are y'all sure? You're about to update the selected videos. Updating your videos is permanent and can't exist undone. [Tick box] I sympathize the implications of this activity". If you click the tick box you will so be able to confirm past clicking 'Update Videos'.
6. On the video you tin see the licence past expanding the 'Details' department.

Option C – Note your preferred licence in the video description

Alternately text tin can be added to the description of your YouTube video stating additional licensing information you may want to provide.

For example, a number of the videos created for Edinburgh Academy MOOCs which are placed on YouTube have been notated with the CC By-NC-SA licence and include a link to the licence details.

To practise this yourself:

1. Become to YouTube.com and make certain you are logged in.
2. Go to the video you want to edit and click on the 'Edit Video' push button.
3. The screen should already be open with the 'Bones Info' tab. There will be a box with the championship of your video, and underneath this a box for additional description of your video.
4. Click anywhere in the description box and enter the details of the CC licence you would like to apply to your video.

The CC licence used by the University of Edinburgh MOOC squad in the case of our example video used in this guide is the Licence: CC-BY-NC-SAhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/iii.0/

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Source: https://open.ed.ac.uk/how-to-guides/adding-a-creative-commons-licence-to-your-resource/applying-a-cc-licence-on-youtube/