Linguistic Team International Forum

Dear members of all linguistic team,

I'm the member of the Chinese chapter, and I used to upload our Chinese versions to Vimeo. However, recently I uploaded the Chinese subtitled version of ZMF, but soon my whole Vimeo account was deleted by Vimeo staff. Here is their response, and I hope all of you can take a look at it as below:

"Hi Albert,

I'm familiar with the Zeitgeist series, and I understand that you are not violating the copyright of the film by uploading it. Unfortunately, since you did not create the film, uploading it to Vimeo still violates our community guidelines, which prohibit uploading anything you did not create yourself. While I understand that translation and subtitling is difficult work, we do not allow people to upload videos they merely subtitled. Sorry about that, have a nice day.

Sincerely,
Jimmy Heffernan"

That is to say, be careful with all of your Vimeo accounts because it says that they only allow users to upload completely original films, and even subtitled films without the issue of copyright are not qualified as long as you're not the original filmmaker of films you upload.

Quoted from "Ana"

And teh other one you've mentioned on FB? That one that works

Right, it's the second account I applied for with another email address. Hopefully it won't be "caught" by the staff of Vimeo again. Now I recommend another new place which seems to be a good place to store subtitled works of all other linguistic teams.

http://www.archive.org/

This one allows you to upload almost all formats of digital materials WITHOUT TIME LIMIT and SIZE LIMIT since it looks like a formal organization sponsored by academic or governmental institution. If you're interested, perhaps you can take a look at this website. I already uploaded another high quality Chinese version of ZMF waiting to be converted on-line.

Quoted from "Ana"

I thought about this one:

"Dear all, since Vimeo is no longer a safe place to store subtitled works, I began to find other sites yesterday by Google. Then I came across this article: http://studentmovies.blogspot.​com/". (Was this your post on Facebook?) If it is working...

Yes, it's my post on Facebook. I now use the website of Internet Archive instead.