Community Forums / General Discussion / TOC: Vimeo Own's Our Videos?!

For legal reasons and technical realities, we need to keep the language broad in our Terms & Conditions; however, that being said, we do not generally commericialize any members' videos, and if you are making your posts private, it is very unlikely we ever would.

Please also note this section:

"For any Submission that is a video, the licenses granted by you herein shall terminate within a commercially reasonable time after you remove or delete such Submission from the Site."

You do, therefore, always have the right to take down any video submission, and Vimeo's license (and therefore ability to make any use of the video) ceases.

Here's more to further clarify our position, hopefully:

At Vimeo, our intent is to nurture creative talent. We strive to provide a forum where users can showcase their creative talents, share their original ideas, and comment on each other's works. All of these elements combine to create a robust creative community enhanced by users submitting comments, feedback and suggestions, as well as their video content. Thus, Vimeo's licensing policy regarding "Submissions" must be broad enough to encompass the varying types of communications, contributions, comments, and submissions received.

As you will note, Vimeo's policy clearly states that "Except as otherwise provided herein, any and all comments, suggestions, ideas, graphics, videos, content, data and other information that you transmit to VIMEO through the Services (each, a "Submission") shall remain your sole and exclusive property. By submitting your Submission to VIMEO, you hereby grant VIMEO and its affiliates, successors and assigns a worldwide, perpetual, non-exclusive, irrevocable, royalty-free, sub-licensable (through multiple tiers) and transferable license (with a right to create derivative works) to use, copy, transmit or otherwise distribute, perform, modify, incorporate into other works, publicly perform and display your Submission or any portion thereof, in or through any medium, whether now known or hereafter created. VIMEO shall be entitled to unrestricted use of any Submission for any purpose whatsoever, commercial or otherwise, without compensation to the submitter."

Vimeo respects the intellectual property rights of others, especially its users. The realities of the legal system necessitate that Vimeo procure a non-exclusive license which is both limited in scope, but still broad enough to allow Vimeo to properly reformat, transmit and distribute user Submissions via the Vimeo.com site, and accommodate changes in Vimeo's structure, business model or services. In particular, such license is necessary to avoid running afoul of submitter intellectual property rights and to protect Vimeo from frivolous lawsuits.

Finally, any discussion of Vimeo's content license as it relates to video submissions would not be complete or accurate without referencing the specific additional limitation/user termination right included in the license. According to the Vimeo Terms of Service - "For any Submission that is a video, the licenses granted by you herein shall terminate within a commercially reasonable time after you remove or delete such Submission from the Site." Thus, a short time after a submitter removes his/her video from Vimeo.com, Vimeo's rights in this material effectively cease.

Be assured that the carefully chosen language used in Vimeo's Terms of Service, including the content license, is only as broad as is necessary to facilitate content for Vimeo.com and to protect the reasonable business interests of Vimeo, LLC.

For legal reasons and technical realities, we need to keep the language broad in our Terms & Conditions; however, that being said, we do not generally commericialize any members' videos, and if you are making your posts private, it is very unlikely we ever would.

Please also note this section:

"For any Submission that is a video, the licenses granted by you herein shall terminate within a commercially reasonable time after you remove or delete such Submission from the Site."

You do, therefore, always have the right to take down any video submission, and Vimeo's license (and therefore ability to make any use of the video) ceases.

For legal reasons and technical realities, we need to keep the language broad in our Terms & Conditions; however, that being said, we do not generally commericialize any members' videos, and if you are making your posts private, it is very unlikely we ever would.

Please also note this section:

"For any Submission that is a video, the licenses granted by you herein shall terminate within a commercially reasonable time after you remove or delete such Submission from the Site."

You do, therefore, always have the right to take down any video submission, and Vimeo's license (and therefore ability to make any use of the video) ceases.

For legal reasons and technical realities, we need to keep the language broad in our Terms & Conditions; however, that being said, we do not generally commericialize any members' videos, and if you are making your posts private, it is very unlikely we ever would.

Please also note this section:

"For any Submission that is a video, the licenses granted by you herein shall terminate within a commercially reasonable time after you remove or delete such Submission from the Site."

You do, therefore, always have the right to take down any video submission, and Vimeo's license (and therefore ability to make any use of the video) ceases.

Scott, as I read Dave's statement (see "should") he's saying that he thinks it's crazy inappropriate that it applies to you Plus users, who have already paid to use Vimeo. Not that the clause in the ToS does not, legally, apply to Plus users.

For legal reasons and technical realities, we need to keep the language broad in our Terms & Conditions; however, that being said, we do not generally commericialize any members' videos, and if you are making your posts private, it is very unlikely we ever would.

Please also note this section:

"For any Submission that is a video, the licenses granted by you herein shall terminate within a commercially reasonable time after you remove or delete such Submission from the Site."

You do, therefore, always have the right to take down any video submission, and Vimeo's license (and therefore ability to make any use of the video) ceases.

For legal reasons and technical realities, we need to keep the language broad in our Terms & Conditions; however, that being said, we do not generally commericialize any members' videos, and if you are making your posts private, it is very unlikely we ever would.

Please also note this section:

"For any Submission that is a video, the licenses granted by you herein shall terminate within a commercially reasonable time after you remove or delete such Submission from the Site."

You do, therefore, always have the right to take down any video submission, and Vimeo's license (and therefore ability to make any use of the video) ceases.