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 licenselicense_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.