SlideShare - YouTube for Powerpoint
October 26, 2006 · Written by Joel
Have you ever created that perfect PowerPoint presentation that you just wanted to share with everyone but didn’t want to email a 10MB file out? No, neither have I, but some people have.
SlideShare is a new service that lets you upload any office document and view and share them in a YouTube/Google Video kind of way.
Whilst a great service, the user agreement grants SideShare ownership rights. Plus there is currently no way of having private presentations, so corporate sensitive presentations will still have to be emailed, or you could use Adobe Connect Professional, or arrange a Webex meeting, or just go and turn up at someone’s office with a laptop. Or just use a pen and paper.
Thanks to TechCrunch UK who also point out the beta tonicpoint service.
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Does the user agreement really give them ownership rights? I read through it specifically to find out about that and as I read it they claim ownership to everything BUT submissions. But then most of what they wrote about the submissions was just about the submitter being responsible for copyright issues and there was nothing specific that I could see about the submitter retaining copyright.
However, for each submission you can choose a licence - all rights reserved or any of the creative commons licences. I don’t think they could do that AND claim ownership?
I find user agreements really hard to understand. And extremely boring…
Thanks for your comments Jill, you make some very good points. I’ll be honest and say that I didn’t read the user agreement thoroughly and was paraphrasing. A creative commons licence does not mean you lose ownership, you’re right, I imagine it’s all a grey area legally to who owns what (what if you upload a video to 3 sites?).
You’re also right about them being hard to understand, they’re most often ignored especially when installing software, hence part of the reason a lot of computers are “infected” with adware/spyware/malware. Who wants to read a 12,000 word document? And who would understand it if they did?
Yeah, I’m sure user agreements are obtruse on purpose just to make users submit into unquestioning obeying…
And I should have said that I *think* I interpreted the user agreement correctly - I’m really not completely sure…
how do you get there, and how do u get the power point onto youtube