An Action Network for Environmental Change

Copyright Policy


Our position on copyright

At EnviroSpeak, we staunchly support copyright laws. Our mission and business is firmly rooted in the idea that artists deserve to control and be rewarded for their intellectual property. We screen every video that is submitted to our system in an effort to promote legality and to police obvious copyright infringement, and we respond promptly to Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) content takedown requests.

Please send correspondence to:

EnviroSpeak Media Inc
Attn: DMCA violation
#2-314 Six Mile Road
Victoria, BC Canada
Fax: 866- 816-9904
Email: copyright@envirospeak.tv

We also believe strongly in the freedoms provided by the doctrine of Fair Use under Canada’s copyright law and to comparable protections provided under the copyright laws in various other jurisdictions. We understand that we are living in a remix culture and we support an open media environment. Canadian copyright law was created with the intent to support artists' creativity - by protecting artists' originality and by allowing artists to build appropriately on the creations of others - and so was EnviroSpeak.

For more information on Fair Use and other copyright issues, please check out these resources:

Don't Sign Your Life Away

It's our goal to give you, the artist, as much control over your work as possible. There are a few things we need you to agree to in order to allow us to add your video to the network - to share it and monetize it. When you join EnviroSpeak, you agree to our Terms of Use. And now for an English translation of some key points:

  • You retain ownership of your video. EnviroSpeak may host and share your video only for as long as you leave it up on our site and only via the distribution channels you choose. Find out more about our various distribution channels.
  • EnviroSpeak will not alter your video in any way other than what is required to share it and monetize it on our network. In other words, we may transcode your video so it can be viewed across our network and of course, we'll attach the advertising to it, but we will not edit or change your artistic creation.
  • EnviroSpeak may use your video commercially, splitting ad revenue with you and any EnviroSpeak affiliates who help to spread your video virally across the network. This is the only way EnviroSpeak and EnviroSpeak members can make money from your work.

 

It's How the Internet Works

By uploading your video to EnviroSpeak, you are joining our network of sharers and sponsors who are eager to spread your video as virally as possible. In order to enable the free and open sharing of EnviroSpeak videos, we're working with Creative Commons to provide the default copyright license to EnviroSpeak videos.

The default license attached to your video is the Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 license, which basically means this:

  • Viewers are free to copy and share your video as long as they attribute credit to you as the creator.
  • Viewers may not make money off your video. Note: if the viewer is also a EnviroSpeak member and shares your video as an affiliate, the right to earn 20% of the ad revenue is built into the EnviroSpeak member agreement. Outside of that arrangement, this license means that no one can lawfully profit from your video without your consent.
  • Viewers may not edit or alter your video without your consent.

Creative Commons is a non-profit organization working to "build a reasonable layer of copyright law."

 

We Are 100% Non-Exclusive

You may choose to allow people to interact with your video in other ways. Maybe you want to allow people to use your video in a mash-up or to add it to a compilation DVD. You can do that! The license outlined above is non-exclusive and applies only to the EnviroSpeakized version of your video.