Company ‘Hijacks’ Blender’s CC By-Licensed Film, YouTube Strikes User

The Blender Institute develops Blender, a free and open source 3D graphics tool used to create animated films. The team at Blender Studio drive Blender development by providing help and training courses to Blender users in an open environment, sharing everything in public and making all content available under free licenses. We're talking about content that was created with Blender's explicit blessing but even after multiple appeals, not even YouTube will see reason. "I am a composer and producer for film music, and I use Blender videos for rescoring, as Blender Studio provides the video, dialogue and SFX under a CC BY 3.0 to which I can add my own music on top," Bruno said. "The content in my video is owned by Blender Studio who has the full copyright. I have a license to this content under the Creative Commons License BY 3.0," he added, linking directly to Blender Studios' upload on YouTube. Bruno suggests this could be tested by having Blender take down the ZO'R TV video using the Blender Studio content, but how Blender feels about this issue is currently unknown. Update Dec 5:After notifying Blender on Sunday, Bruno received a personal response from Blender developer Ton Roosendaal early Monday.