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stubby43
stubby43 aka Phil is a 25.42 year old boy, has been a member since December 22, 2006, has scored 3,809 submissions, giving an average score of 2.65, helping 191 designs get printed.
I'm thinking of uploading a video to college humour.com but were trying to make it as our own film company so we need to make sure we dont loose ownership or the right to distribute our video elsewhere.

I know we dont loose ownership but I'm not sure about distribution rights:

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Maltzmania
Maltzmania on Apr 20 '08 at 6:49pm
This is a click-wrap license similar to ones you click, when installing software. It's essentially the "meeting of the minds", or mutual assent version of your contract with college humor to use their services of placing your video on their site. You own this material, and are just using CH.com as a venue to distribute it to the public via their means...you retain the ability to distribute it yourself, I would recommend asking CH to take it down once you need to mass produce it or something.





I'm only a 1st year at law school but that's what I can gather from contracts
ofthecoast
ofthecoast on Apr 20 '08 at 6:50pm
LAWYER MALTZ TO THE RESCUE
Maltzmania
Maltzmania on Apr 20 '08 at 6:51pm
*all of my information above may or may not be applicable or useable*
stubby43
stubby43 on Apr 20 '08 at 7:08pm
Cheers Maltz, using websites like college humor are really, really useful to us because it will give us access to a much large audience.



The biggest problem we have isnt that are productions are bad (in fact there pretty good) its visability, at the moment vertually no one has seen are videos and sites like this will give us a bigger audience but we dont want to get locked into a contract which means we loose distribution rights.



With the normal tv channels what usually happens is when you distribute on their channels they own the intulectual property and the distribution rights so were not allowed to talk about the productions we run on our on website.



which would be counter productive for us.
Pixtoons
Pixtoons on Apr 20 '08 at 7:19pm
Why don't you use YouTube instead? As long as you own the copyright to the material you submit (in other words, you are not infringing anyone else's copyrights) you're in the clear, and YouTube will not make any claims to your material.
stubby43
stubby43 on Apr 20 '08 at 7:39pm
Pixtoons, its a couple of reasons really, one to get a decent video quality a video would have to be really short and two (the more important reason) youtube has no quality control, its incredibly easy for videos to get lost in the billions of videos uploaded everyday (the user generated videos that only have appeal to friends and family).



To actually make your video successful on youtube, it takes alot of viral advertising to get people to watch it (e.g showing it to all your friends, putting it up on blogs and other websites).



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