• TechCrunch, Thursday, June 2, 2011 11:20 AM

Along with the standard YouTube license, Google's video hub just debuted a new way for uploaders to license their content: Creative Commons (with attribution). "In short, you can now give other people permission to use your footage however they'd like, provided to include a link back to the source," TechCrunch explains. As a result, users will now be able to use YouTube's video editor to splice their own video with content that has been uploaded by other users under Creative Commons.

As part of the broader initiative, YouTube has partnered with C-SPAN and Al Jazeera to offer users an initial influx of about 10,000 videos under the CC license. According to TechCrunch, "That library will rapidly increase as more people switch their content over to Creative Commons, and there's even a tool that will let you swap the license for a bunch of videos at once." Now, whenever users watch a video on YouTube that includes CC content, an attribution link will be featured under the video.

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