[Watchknow-l] Bill Nye

[sanger at citizendium.org]

This happens sometimes--somebody has uploaded a video to YouTube and then
it is taken down.  In this case, it was taken down because Disney
evidently didn't want Bill Nye on YouTube.  I've looked at our Bill Nye
offerings http://www.watchknow.org/SearchResults.aspx?SearchText=Bill+Nye
and it looks like they have all been removed.  I wouldn't be a bit
surprised if they used WatchKnow to identify the Bill Nye videos on
YouTube.

(By the way, please help remove all these "dead embeds," contractors...)

It's a real shame, but in this case we're obligated to adopt a policy in
which, if anybody uploads Bill Nye videos to YouTube, and then somebody
tries to embed them in WatchKnow, we will remove them from WatchKnow (or
not approve them in the first place).

I was curious if Disney would let the Bill Nye videos stay there.  They
really are great.

It's possible they'll be made available elsewhere, such as hulu.com.

(Again, contractors...could you hunt around online for where we might find
some Disney-approved Bill to embed?  Wait, that didn't sound right. 
Anyway, then let me know where.)

--Larry

> I just found watchknow.org last week and was happily planning when to show
> various Bill Nye videos to my 3rd graders.  We watched the water cycle on
> Friday and they really loved it.  I was very disappointed when one of my
> students came in today and said that she was unable to show her sister the
> videos.  When you try to watch, it says that terms of use violations
> caused
> it to be removed.
>
> I'm not clear exactly what that  means.  I was so looking forward to using
> those videos.  I looked  at amazon.com to see if the video on the water
> cycle could be purchased, but  couldn't find it.
>
> Can anyone explain?
>
>  I'm really glad to have found this site and look forward to what else
> comes in the future.
>
> Thank you.
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