Mashup Artists Rejoice! YouTube Editor Incorporates Creative Commons

If you like making mashups of popular YouTube videos then you are in for the treat of your life.  According to NewTeeVee’s Janko Roettgers, the YouTube Editor is adopting Creative Commons licenses at 9AM PST today.  What does this mean?  Basically that YouTubers will be able to access Creative Commons-licensed video directly through the YouTube Editor and cut the footage up with other clips to make their own masterpieces.  Pretty cool, eh?

According to Roettgers, “YouTube’s catalog of Creative Commons clips is being seeded with more than 10,000 videos from partners like C-SPAN, Voice of America and Al Jazeera.