Do I need to address sources?

[Quick Question]

I see a lot of education, top ten list, or gossip/news channels make videos on a wide variety of historical information, however, they are not citing very many sources and, in most cases, no sources.

I am going to start up more videos around education but a lot more laid back and chill. I plan to give people a lot of widely available information in one stop shop type videos and I don't know if I should cite sources since a lot of the information is just what I know (sometimes I have to do some research, but most times not really).

 

[Stike96]

I see a lot of education, top ten list, or gossip/news channels make videos on a wide variety of historical information, however, they are not citing very many sources and, in most cases, no sources.

I am going to start up more videos around education but a lot more laid back and chill. I plan to give people a lot of widely available information in one stop shop type videos and I don't know if I should cite sources since a lot of the information is just what I know (sometimes I have to do some research, but most times not really).

Yeah do it, unless I forgot to in some videos (I hope that I didn't) I try to have a sources section in the description. It doesn't have to be APA or anything, just put the links in Evernote (or another text editor) as you go along and then copy and paste them in the description along with the article/video title.

 

[Cephus]

Do you have to? No. Is it a good idea? Absolutely. Nobody is going to shut down your channel if you don't cite sources in the description, but it will get you a lot more respect if you do.

 

[Crown]

Moved to the strategy / technique forum.

When you say "sources", I assume you mean sources of the facts / knowledge and not sources of any content (footage / audio) ? If so, then there is no legal obligation to do so but it'd make you much more credible if you do.

 

[Quick Question]

Thank you for the feedback. I will include sources in the future!

there is no legal obligation to do so but it'd make you much more credible if you do.

Thank you for the input and yes I meant that more towards fact checking.

 

[MedTerms]

Hi, I include sources at the end of my videos, but only for the information that I don't personally know already (like word origin/history).

 

[KatyAdelson]

I would include as many sources as you can. If anything, I think it will be more necessary in the future than it is right now. If you quote anything directly, I'd definitely include a source.

 

[MedTerms]

I would include as many sources as you can. If anything, I think it will be more necessary in the future than it is right now. If you quote anything directly, I'd definitely include a source.

One question that came up, which was only addressed by referring me to tons of legal language on a publsher's site, is the question of quoting copyrighted material in an online video. Since audio and video/graphics are such an issue (and rightly so), I wanted to know if attribution was sufficient or if formal permission was also required. In what is perhaps an overabundance of caution, I settled for only quoting from sources that gave permission in writing.

 

[KatyAdelson]

One question that came up, which was only addressed by referring me to tons of legal language on a publsher's site, is the question of quoting copyrighted material in an online video. Since audio and video/graphics are such an issue (and rightly so), I wanted to know if attribution was sufficient or if formal permission was also required. In what is perhaps an overabundance of caution, I settled for only quoting from sources that gave permission in writing.

I'm definitely not a lawyer, so take what my opinion is with a big grain of salt lol.

I think some parts depends what you mean by "quoting copyrighted material" in an online video. Directly showing the original source footage / imagery might need a license of some kind unless you think your discussion falls under fair use, but I'd imagine quoting information would just need a source listed like it would in a paper.

My last job was pretty intense about giving sources and one of the classes we had to take said that the majority of people are plagiarizing by not listing ALL (very literally: ALL....) their sources. They said you need to quote emails with sources, quote your professor's lecture as a source, any book you learned a fact from as a source (even if it's considered "common knowledge" now...). If you had an idea and at any time wrote it down in an email or a paper, you had to even quote yourself as a source. Even if you bounced an idea off of another person and s/he gives you a new point of view to consider, he/she needed to be quoted as a source. Basically, anything you learned or did not think of by yourself (and haven't written down in a public space) needed to be quoted and sourced to not be considered plagiarism. I thought the training and amount of sourcing they needed was a bit excessive, but apparently they had been sued a lot for plagiarism in the past.

But they never mentioned asking for permission to quote all these people and books. ^_^