A news website site used my video

JeffHK

JeffHK

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spiegel.de/video/timelapse-pazifikueberquerung-auf-riesen-frachter-video-1680687.html

Prior to using my video, they emailed and asked if they could use and edit my video. I agreed and asked them to include a link to my youtube channel.
I was trying to put polite so i guess i wasn't specific enough, i said and quote:
You are welcome to use it. If u could kindly put a reference to my youtube channel ----my youtube channel link---
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Today i just found saw the video (thanks to another YTtalk member pointing out) only included a unclickable, non-link credit that is burned onto the video (hard to explain, please see the link and ull understand) which is redundant because i had already burnt a watermark on the original...

I emailed them to ask again to put a link to my channel, and if they dont. What can i do?
 
Ah! and they're making money off that video too. Oh boy.

At the very least at they asked permission and did give credit in some form. But yeah you have to always be very specific when making you're demands. Do you have it in writing? Actually even then it's not going to mean anything because they did technically put a link to your channel in the video, so they did fulfil what you asked, just not in the way you intended.

Idk man it's hard. Once you given them that in writing you're gonna to have a problem if they do refuse. Hopefully they won't though. They did asked permission in the first place, so it's likely they'll honour the creators request if you try to specify what you meant.
 
Honestly, my opinion is that they have acted in good faith. They have done what you asked. :)

In the future, you need to make it crystal clear that a clickable link to your channel is placed just below the video.

(Having said that, I doubt many people would actually click on the link. The majority are just there to watch the video and then read another article or whatever.)
 
ya they put up the link, last week my audience was 70% from north america, this week Germany took first place at 60%, so i'd say alot are clicking the link
 
So, it looks like everything was resolved? I'd say this is a good lesson to be explicit, but I have had the experience where people have gotten a lot of trickle traffic even when there was no clickable link (they were cover musicians who were included in an E3 presentation, and people just searched for the participating channels after watching the E3 presentation).

Hope you can really capitalize on the new traffic!
 
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