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There was a startup in 2009 or so that did exactly this. Got millions in investment and disappeared? Can’t remember the name now. As far as I can tell, this so
by neilk 4y ago
There was a startup in 2009 or so that did exactly this. Got millions in investment and disappeared? Can’t remember the name now.
As far as I can tell, this sort of use of Wikipedia content - even for a monetized YouTube video - isn’t inherently against the CC-BY-SA terms. Though, you have made one change, you created a character called the storyteller who introduces each text, and a brand for that channel. That might make it a little questionable legally, even though you credit Wikipedia in the description. Also under the terms of a ShareAlike license, it seems to me that you should also provide the raw generated video under the same terms.
Maybe do a little inquiry into how to do this right? It seems your project is basically abandoned now though?
Source: my own knowledge - I did work on media licensing CC content years ago, but am not a lawyer.
- ailef 4y agoThanks for the feedback. Yeah, the project is basically abandoned. That's why I didn't research further into the licensing stuff (although at the time I thought attribution was good enough). The content has never been monetized, since it's also against YouTube TOS to monetize automatically generated videos.