COPYRIGHT / TERMS OF USE
You may watch videos all day and night on our site, but you may not download our videos under any conditions. It would hurt artists on our site and it would be unlawful.
It would also be a violation of law to attempt to upload any videos on our site to another website (unless you own the video), or even re-upload them somewhere else on this site. Don't worry, if you want a video close by, you can always favorite it.
We don't wish to write a long, all-encompassing list of terms, because no one reads them nor can understand them, so we will apply the "reasonability standard" instead -- meaning, if a person of rational intelligence would consider what you're thinking about doing wrong or unlawful, we ask that you don't do it, or if you're unsure, that you contact us so that we can let you know. Don't be afraid to write us a complicated email, we have an intelligent staff here, we don't outsource your inquiry.
If you wish to open an account with ad videos, please contact us first and read our Better Ads policy. We wouldn't allow ad videos for dishonest products or harmful ones. For example, we wouldn't allow Taco Bell to have an ad video account here. Or any ads here for that matter. That would be like treason, since the United States has declared a "War On Obesity."
Although we're tough on dishonesty and harmful product ads, you'll probably find us more lenient and open-minded than any other entertainment video sharing site. We're not sticklers, we don't censor, we just believe in old-fashioned integrity, specifically when it comes to ads. Meaning, we don't ask that your video content or speech be upright. Say what you want, do what you want, swear all you want. Become an anarchist. Become a communist. Become a pacifist. Just try to follow the laws of humanity to some degree.
Of course, we don't allow porn or spam videos, or something like a bunch of thirty-second clips of your dog peeing outside. We will have family filter settings in place soon enough to filter mature content from the younger folk.
However, we're not Disney and we're not Puritans ashamed of the human body, so nudity is acceptable, especially if it's part of a greater work than just, let's say, a nude dance. Though we'd have a hard time deleting a really decent nude dance, just to be honest with you. Especially if it's Better than a mainstream nude dance. Does anyone have a video like this? Forget I asked.
If we decide to feature a video of yours on our homepage, the ad(s) you have on that video will appear alongside that video when it is watched. Further, your ads will always appear when your video is selected, unless you've chosen a different revenue sharing agreement with us.
All videos on this site are copyright of BetterStream.com and/or the respective video creators.
BETTERSTREAM.COM ACCOUNT HOLDERS
Feel free to upload your videos to BetterStream.com. However, you must have the lawful rights to all of the content you upload to our site(s). Of course, you are allowed to infringe copyright if you are doing so lawfully.
For example, if you are criticizing or making fun of a mainstream music video, you can highlight a portion of that video or artist that you're making fun of, to the extent permitted by copyright law. If you're unsure, please contact us and we will let you know or find out.
Unless we make another deal with you, such as entering into an agreement with you to buy your content outright or to purchase the rights to it you will retain full rights to the content you upload here. Accordingly, you can remove your content from our site whenever you want.
If there's something in our terms of use that you don't like or don't agree with, or you would like to enter into an additional or different agreement with us, please contact us to discuss it. As you can see, we're extremely open-minded here. Nothing is set in stone except for our Better treatment of artists, our Better video streaming, and our Better content and sponsors.
We can't think of anything else to say right now, so we'll just shut up. And let you get crazy.
Please read About the Founder of BetterStream to see how his personal experience with the mainstream entertainment industry led to the creation of BetterStream and its highly principled treatment of artists.
IMPORTANT LINKS:
About BetterStream
Promotion on BetterStream
Artists Have To Get Paid
Our Declaration of Independence
If you have any questions or want us to further explain anything we've written in these sections, or if you just want to say hi, please contact us.