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License Information

This dataset contains videos under multiple open licenses. Each video's specific license is recorded in the licenseurl field of the metadata.

Included Licenses

Public Domain

Videos in the public domain have no known copyright restrictions and may be used freely for any purpose.

CC0 (Creative Commons Zero)

https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

The creator has waived all copyright and related rights. You can copy, modify, distribute, and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, without asking permission.

CC BY (Creative Commons Attribution)

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

You may share and adapt the material for any purpose, including commercially, as long as you give appropriate credit.

CC BY-SA (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike)

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

You may share and adapt the material for any purpose, including commercially, as long as you give appropriate credit and distribute your contributions under the same license.

Excluded Licenses

This dataset explicitly excludes videos with Non-Commercial (NC) restrictions:

  • CC BY-NC
  • CC BY-NC-SA
  • CC BY-NC-ND

How to Check a Video's License

Each entry in metadata.jsonl includes:

  • licenseurl: The full URL to the license
  • license_type: A human-readable license name (e.g., "Public Domain", "CC BY")

Attribution

When using CC BY or CC BY-SA licensed content, please provide attribution to the original creator as specified in the video's metadata.

For all content, we recommend acknowledging:

Films courtesy of the Prelinger Archives, hosted by the Internet Archive.