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Hi everyone,
Interesting topic. I am pleased that several of you have a feeling that we aren’t just the same as everyone else in regards to the use of content we create. At this point it may be a misunderstanding. With regard to the contents of this site we reserve all the rights a normal publishing company would. It is commercial content that we own and use commercially.
With regards to the YouTube videos it isn’t something we ever really thought about. We started posting videos there entirely to help people to learn woodworking. It has grown but I like to think that is still the case but we aren’t going to specifically change the licensing of that content without a lot of thought/legal advice.
Having said all of that, I really like the idea of some aspects of our future content being free to distribute and I may ask for some community opinion on that in the future. I am not entirely sure that ‘open source’, as I understand it, would be the correct licensing attribution. I believe open sourcing content would allow others to use it for a commercial purpose and while I love the concept in regards to community built projects I am not sure that would be appropriate for videos of Paul’s teaching. Perhaps a licence for non-commercial distribution would be more appropriate. I think this would be especially appropriate for videos of age-old techniques that have been passed down through generations of woodworkers. It would be nice to preserve them in a way that makes them free for others to share. We aren’t ready to work on this yet but it is worth thinking about.
Thanks for bringing it up. Hopefully we can discuss this more fully in the future.
If anyone has specific and/or professional knowledge of Creative Commons licensing and wouldn’t mind helping us to work on this when we are ready I would appreciate it if you would get in touch.