[Watchknow-l] license question

[Larry Sanger]

Hi Karen,

Thanks for your kind words about WatchKnow.

We thought at the outset of the project that we would be focused more on the
contest aspect of the project.  Our notion was that a great deal of new
(open licensed) videos would be created for WatchKnow.  We soon learned of
the astonishing number of educational videos already available online, which
changed our focus.

We have started tracking license information for some videos (if it can be
easily gleaned from YouTube or other sources).  Displaying and making this
information searchable is certainly our plan, but given our huge assortment
of priorities, I have to admit in all honesty that it hasn't risen very high
on the list yet.  But again, that isn't to say we don't intend to make it
possible to restrict search just to the free-licensed videos.  I hope we'll
get to that before too much longer.

--Larry


-----Original Message-----
From: watchknow-l-bounces at mail.citizendium.org
[mailto:watchknow-l-bounces at mail.citizendium.org] On Behalf Of Karen
Fasimpaur
Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 6:28 PM
To: watchknow-l at mail.citizendium.org
Subject: [Watchknow-l] license question

Congratulations on creating such a marvelous resource!

I have a question about licenses for individual assets in the 
collection. I thought that early on I'd heard that there would be a 
focus on open-licensed video, but most of the video appears to be 
traditionally copyrighted. Is that correct? Is there a way to identify 
the license for each asset? Is there a way to search for only 
open-licensed video?

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

karen

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