Thread: Software training site

Originally Posted by Duff

Licence rights :
We will propose tutorial on open source and proprietary softwares (we paid all the licences + yearly fees).
- Can we propose tutorial with screencasts of us using a proprietary software ? or do we have to ask a permission or to be accountable to the software owner ? (ie. Adobe for Illustrator)

Hi Fastliners

I found the answers for all the other questions I asked you. But still don't know about the copyright issue about video tutorials.

anyone have information ?

thanks in advance,

Duff

Hi Duff.

1. Great idea. I love the concept.

2. I'd love to hear what you found out about payment methods for the french/spanish markets.

3. Same with the piracy issue. I've seen hackers having copies of videos and PDFs of many training sites very quickly, so it would be great to hear what alternatives you have found.

4. I am not sure, but I would be surprise you have issues with licensing if you are showing screencasts for software. If I were the software owner, I'd love to see more and more training material available so more users get to use my software. No?

Thanks again for sharing your idea and your findings.

And welcome to the fastlane!

Hi Andviv,

Originally Posted by andviv

2. I'd love to hear what you found out about payment methods for the french/spanish markets.

We will use Paypal because it's the easiest first and not that costly. Then we will see if we switch to a real bank system. We found an interesting simulator on this page (in french : Comparatif des solutions de paiement en ligne - le tableau comparatif ). You put the estimation of products you will sale per month and the price of it (without taxes). We concluded that paypal fit well our needs.

Originally Posted by andviv

3. Same with the piracy issue. I've seen hackers having copies of videos and PDFs of many training sites very quickly, so it would be great to hear what alternatives you have found.

After lots of research, we will use amazon S3 with the cloud option (don't remember the name). The videos will be in streaming, but not in the cache of the computer, so you can't download the videos since it's not cached.

We will not use PDFs, only videos, because you can unprotect it with a lot of softwares.

The only way to steal a video is to record it with softwares like camtesia.

Originally Posted by andviv

4. I am not sure, but I would be surprise you have issues with licensing if you are showing screencasts for software. If I were the software owner, I'd love to see more and more training material available so more users get to use my software. No?

One of the software owner of a the propriatary software we will propose have e-learning on their site, so we will a concurrent and they will not like it.

The thing is that we really want to be sure about the law, because if we invest time and money, we want to be sure to be the only boss that can decide to stop our business. So we are still looking for answers

See ya,

Duff

Originally Posted by Duff

One of the software owner of a the propriatary software we will propose have e-learning on their site, so we will a concurrent and they will not like it.

Maybe you just need to skip that one, or get it done and be prepared to remove it if they ask you to do so.

Originally Posted by andviv

Maybe you just need to skip that one, or get it done and be prepared to remove it if they ask you to do so.

anyways, we will try first a course and see the reaction of the company. The thing is that the software is used by 50% of the market.

I'm a tad confused. Is this about PayPal training more so than actually training video software? If it's actual training video software along the lines of e-learning and what not, I know there are companies like SkillSoft out there that could handle something like that.