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What is BubblePLY.com? |
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A new type of chewing experience, hmmm, we mean a video experience.
Have you seen a video you'd like to comment on? Do you want to add information to a video
and share it with others? Have something funny to say? Want to add a subtitle? It’s
all possible with BubblePLY.com.
We are a free online annotating service where anyone can experiment with creating and/or
viewing layers (PLYs) of bubbles that are synchronized with a video on a player. You can
expand your viewing experience by adding personal comments or thoughts in the form of
captions, or as we like to call them - bubbles.
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What do the words PLY, BubblePLY and Bubble have in common? |
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They all have the letter ‘L’, and are all terms used in BubblePLY.com. A PLY
is a transparent layer that is placed over a video ready for you to start creating content
such as Bubbles. Bubbles are similar to captions and can be used to add your own words to
a video. A BubblePLY is the result of adding a Bubble on a PLY.
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How do I start creating a BubblePLY? |
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Well, you could hire several expert flash programmers and a few talented designers and
invest $1,000,000, or simply grab any video from a video community (see full list) by copying and pasting the URL into BubblePLY.com. You are
now ready to start bubbling. For more info see ‘Creating
Bubbles’.
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Can I share a BubblePLY? |
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You bet ya. After completing your Bubble creation (and by clicking on ‘Done
Editing’ at the top of the Plycreator™) you will see a few options such as
‘share this link with a friend’ and ‘embed video and bubbles in your
site’. For more info check out ‘Getting a
link’ or ‘Sharing with Others’.
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Is BubblePLY.com free? |
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It costs $1,000!!! Well, actually it’s free. Anyone can add text (and, in the
future, audio, graphics and video) and share their Bubbles free of charge. In addition,
members have the ability to view and manage the PLYs and the Bubbles they created.
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Is BubblePLY.com just another editing tool? |
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Is Bill Gates just another rich dude? No way. BubblePLY is not just another anything.
BubblePLY.com enables you to enhance a video without disturbing the actual video content.
The original video is always kept intact; the only changes are cosmetic in that
BubblePLY.com adds a transparent layer (called a PLY) to which your content is added. The
PLY can easily be turned off.
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Does BubblePLY.com infringe upon the copyright of content? |
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BubblePLY.com places great importance in protecting the creator's copyrights and has
developed technology that does not interfere with the video, edit, manipulate or modify
it. BubblePLY.com does not copy the movie nor affect it but only enables users to comment
on an independent layer which streams from a separate source. Hence, BubblePLY.com does
not violate the conditions of access stated in the terms of use of video communities for
the video but rather enables users to exercise their freedom of expression.
In addition to protecting the rights of the creator, We also believe that every person has
the right to exercise their creativity and has the right to express themselves.
BubblePLY.com believes that the intellectual freedom protected by the First Amendment
secures the constitutional right of any individual to provide their perspective regarding
viewed material.
BubblePLY endorses a comprehensive notion of copyright protection which includes both the
creator's rights and the user's rights. Too often copyright protection is mistakenly
conceived to only apply to the creator's rights while ignoring the important right of the
user to interact with media artifacts and to comment, critic and otherwise offer their
perspective for viewed material. BubblePLY.com respects the creator's right to control the
distribution and performance of their artwork while enabling the viewers to express
themselves on an independent layer on top of the video.
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