Copyright Information

We're the good guys, seriously.

Copyright is complicated stuff. Our position on it is pretty simple.

At Revver, we staunchly support copyright laws. Our mission and business is firmly rooted in the idea that artists deserve to control and be rewarded for their intellectual property. We screen every video that is submitted to our system in an effort to promote legality and to police obvious copyright infringement, and we respond promptly to Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) content takedown requests.

Please send correspondence to:
Revver, Inc.
Attn: DMCA violation
6464 Sunset Boulevard
Hollywood, Ca. 90028
Fax: 323-871-2820
Email: dmca -@- revver.com

We also believe strongly in the freedoms provided by the doctrine of Fair Use under US copyright law and to comparable protections provided under the copyright laws in various other jurisdictions. We understand that we are living in a remix culture and we support an open media environment. US copyright law was created with the intent to support artists' creativity - by protecting artists' originality and by allowing artists to build appropriately on the creations of others - and so was Revver.

For more information on Fair Use and other copyright issues, please check out these resources:

Don't sign your life away.

It's our goal to give you, the artist, as much control over your work as possible. There are a few things we need you to agree to in order to allow us to add your video to the network - to share it and monetize it. When you join Revver, you agree to our Member Agreement. And now for an English translation of some key points:

  • You retain ownership of your video. Revver may host and share your video only for as long as you leave it up on our site and only via the distribution channels you choose. Find out more about our various distribution channels.
  • Revver will not alter your video in any way other than what is required to share it and monetize it on our network. In other words, we may transcode your video so it can be viewed across our network and of course, we'll attach the advertising to it, but we will not edit or change your artistic creation.
  • Revver may use your video commercially, splitting ad revenue with you and any Revver affiliates who help to spread your video virally across the network. This is the only way Revver and Revver members can make money from your work.

It's how the Internet works.

By uploading your video to Revver, you are joining our network of sharers and sponsors who are eager to spread your video as virally as possible. In order to enable the free and open sharing of Revver videos, we're working with with Creative Commons to provide the default copyright license to Revver videos.

The default license attached to your video is the Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 license, which basically means this:

  • Viewers are free to copy and share your video as long as they attribute credit to you as the creator.
  • Viewers may not make money off your video. Note: if the viewer is also a Revver member and shares your video as an affiliate, the right to earn 20% of the ad revenue is built into the Revver member agreement. Outside of that arrangement, this license means that no one can lawfully profit from your video without your consent.
  • Viewers may not edit or alter your video without your consent.

Creative Commons is a non-profit organization working to "build a reasonable layer of copyright law."

We're totally not going steady.

You may choose to allow people to interact with your video in other ways. Maybe you want to allow people to use your video in a mash-up or to add it to a compilation DVD. You can do that! The license outlined above is non-exclusive and applies only to the Revverized version of your video.