I want to share some lessons with oters, but I don’t know how can I change the sharing state of lesson. Does it requires a permission? How can I do that?
You can share the lesson under the Edit Lesson page. However, after sharing it remains in the review mode and will not be available in the Library before our team checks and approves it.
It seems I should change the sharing state for all the lessons. It will be much more efficient if I can change the course’s whole lessons’ state together.
I also think it would be nice to be able to share a whole private course.
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I tried to share a Youtube video but was refused. LingQ said permission from the video author was missing. Which is reasonable. But this video is a language teaching video, and I can’t see any text against sharing the content. Instead the video author begs viewers to share the video.
I understand LingQ must be careful following rules of sharing content. But as in the case, I think LingQ is too strict.
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You can change the sharing status of several or all lessons in a course at once if you do it in Edit Course mode instead of Edit Lesson mode. You will still have to wait for a librarian’s approval.
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Sharing a video is different from hosting it externally, since it would deprive the creator of control and revenue over the content. YouTube particularly gives the creator the choice of licensing a video under the Creative Commons protocol, it will be marked as so under the description box.
That allows you to change and upload the video elsewhere as long as you credit the creator. Otherwise you need explicit permission to host it externally. If that’s what the author allows, mention it in the description box when sharing it. For people who take crediting seriously, LingQ’s description box is not always big enough, ideally it should have a separate box for licensing information.
You can also share a YouTube video as an External Lesson, then you don’t need authorization since it will be hosted outside and just accessed from within LingQ.
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Can you explain more about the “External” lesson and the “Shared lesson”? I can’t find an explanation about them. As far as I understood, “shared” means sharing the lesson directly to the user, and “external” means only providing the original source of the content so that others can import it by themselves. Is it right?
Also, in LingQ, every video is played on an embedded youtube player, and it’s no different from watching a video on youtube, every benefit generated by ads goes to the creator. So I don’t know how it is related to the copyright violation, and why is the external lesson option required?
Yes, that’s pretty much it. If it’s just the embedded video, coming from an external source, then it can be shared as an external lesson, and technically even if it’s “shared” other users will just import it as private. If the video, the audio, or the text are hosted in LingQ, that may configure copyright violation, and needs authorization to be shared. Even if the video itself is embedded, the text is imported into LingQ. And even if there is no monetization, the creators have rights over their content.
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By the way, does LingQ support video upload? As far as I know, they only support audio and text/sub. That was the confusing point.
I see, videos themselves can’t be uploaded to LingQ, my mistake.
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I failed to share a course. LingQ requires consent from the owner even though all the contents are freely downloadable from the author’s website. I couldn’t find contact information, so I gave up.
If you want to share a course, your content needs to have a CC or other copyleft license, or you need to get explicit consent from the content creator.
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