> If you upload to youtube, you loose exclusive licensing rights
Can you explain more? If a small producer uploads to youtube, they cannot upload to any other platform (eg iTunes)?
Can you explain more? If a small producer uploads to youtube, they cannot upload to any other platform (eg iTunes)?
However time goes on, and you become successful, and google starts a netflix competitor, because you have granted google a non exclusive license to syndicate your content as you see fit, you don't get to charge more for your media being used to sell a premium service.
Google has the right to federate and syndicate on your behalf. Say you want to create a collection of videos on android in a folio app type thing, charging $1. There is nothing stopping someone else creating a playlist of the same content undercutting your product. Even worse, there is nothing to stop google using your copyright at the original rate, despite charging $1 a play.
The problem comes to negotiation, you can't unless you delete your content, and therefore your revenue stream. You have to play by their rules. You have two choices, take the pennies they throw at you, refuse to take the pennies, but google does what it wants anyway(as they already have a license), or delete the content. There are no other options.
You can turn of embed and syndicate permissions, preventing mobile, web and TV access. You can even unlist the video. Some combination of these would certainly stop anyone other than Google from creating a premium service with your videos.
> Say you want to create a collection of videos on android in a folio app type thing, charging $1.
But if your goal is "folio app type thing", there is no need to use YouTube at all. The whole purpose of YouTube is give your videos exposure and have them mix on a common platform. If you want to hide them, just self-host.