License YouTube Videos Under Creative Commons

Update: Here’s the official announcement from YouTube.

How many times have you been putting together a video and realized you just don’t have the right B-roll? Now you can head on over to YouTube and find some usable, Creative Commons footage.

Yesterday, the news leaked that YouTube will be giving its users the option to license their content under Creative Commons, provided they give attribution. Or, as TechCrunch’s Jason Kincaid put it, “you can now give other people permission to use your footage however they’d like, provided [they] include a link back to the source.”

This means that by using the YouTube Video Editor, users will now be able to put CC content into their video.

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