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YouTubewill introduce aCreative Commons licensingoption for uploaders at 9am Pacific tomorrow morning,Boing Boing reports. Flickr has offered a similar option for years that makes finding photographs for blog posts and the like much easier, without having to resort to the tacky artificial gloss of commercial stock photography. While the demand for stock video in online publishing is never going to be quite that high, this is great news for remixers. This move will make it that much clearer to mashup artists which videos can be used to create new works without fear of reprisal....

YouTube is now streaming James Bond movies for FREE (in the US) Why does YouTube have all these James Bond movies streaming for free? Well, it’s definitely good promotion forJames Bond— especially during the pandemic. Having the videos easily available on YouTube would make it easy for families to simultaneously watch them wherever they are. On top of that, it’s telling that all theJames Bondmovies that are free-to-watch are from before 2000....

If you have ever tried to overlay a simple YouTube video with a snippet of your favourite music track, you will know how seriously Google takes piracy. Over the past couple of weeks a number of full length movies have started to emerge on the popular YouTube video service, suggesting that either YouTube’s own algorithms are becoming ineffectual or movie pirates are finding ways of ensuring their uploads are able to circumvent barriers put in place by the search giant....

It was due time for a refresh, when you consider how much work Google has done with the rest of its services across the Internet, and it appears that YouTube is starting to get a loving brush stroke, as well. After watching a quick video this morning, we spotted this: As you can see, the new design for YouTube’s “related videos” suggestion showcases 12 videos in a single pane, rather than one large related video, then a few smattered around the border....

I tend to try to avoid the comments section on YouTube as much as possible, but it turns out the company is testing a way to make them even more prominent. As spotted byAndroid Police, the video platform is testing a way to allow users to post comments linked to a specific time. It sounds a lot like SoundCloud’s comments, based on the information on thissupport page: We’re currently testing a new feature that allows you to view comments timed to the exact moment you’re watching in a video....