I’ve been busy degoogling and thinking of replacing YouTube with these two streaming services. You can get them bundled for $50/yr. Anyone have experience with them, and are they worth it? Thank you!
I’ve been busy degoogling and thinking of replacing YouTube with these two streaming services. You can get them bundled for $50/yr. Anyone have experience with them, and are they worth it? Thank you!
How should the creators be compensated? This isn’t being made by some large media conglomerate and they are creating content that has been found to not be able to be funded by advertising.
Thats a good question. If these closed gardens provided a copy to internet archive (to be unlocked in the future, or in the event of bankruptcy) I think I wouldn’t have any objections.
There are many monetization models in the world, this one is problematic for the reasons I brought up earlier.
If we take a note from literature publishing, libraries can lend out a copy, and the library of congress gets one (two?) free copies of every book. Maybe the same could be done with digital content.
The pateron model where subscribers get early content a few days, weeks, or month ahead of time is another option.
I don’t know the best, or perfect solution, but making ephemeral work that disappears in a few years (the ultimate dark age of bit rot) worries me.
As far as I’m aware, Nebula / Curiosity Stream doesn’t have any exclusivity agreements with creators… they’re free to post their videos elsewhere, too. Why is it Nebula’s responsibility - or even their right - to archive creators’ content? Shouldn’t the creators be the ones to decide how and where their content is distributed?
For Nebula, it depends.
If the creator made the work on their own dime, then it can be released anywhere.
However, Nebula will give creators money to make content that creators could not self fund. In those cases, these videos could either be Nebula exclusive or Nebula first videos.
That’s good info - I wasn’t aware of that being a thing. Does that exclusivity agreement survive the hypothetical dissolution of Nebula? If not, the creators would be free to distribute it as they saw fit in the situation you propose where Nebula goes out of business and archival is needed.
I don’t know and that hasn’t been made public. However, since Nebula is owned by the creators, I can’t imagine a scenario where the creators give up their copyright if the business fails.
I think a major part of the problem is that Internet videos haven’t seemed to reach a point where it is viable to purchase them. Libraries were able to exist because they were protected to be able to lend purchased books due to first sale doctrine. We don’t have an equivalent to this for Internet videos as the market isn’t there.
There seems to be a floor of around a dollar where a digital good will be sold in a marketplace where the good can be used outside of that marketplace. No one is going to sell a digital good for a cent or a fraction of a cent, so there isn’t the ability for a library to buy a video for archival purposes.
I don’t know how that gets fixed.
Just a small note here. The LOC does not have a copy of every book published. https://www.loc.gov/about/frequently-asked-questions/#every_book