Principles and Mission

This is a DRAFT document. We welcome suggestions from the MIT community as we work to finalize MIT Tech TV's Principles and Mission. For inquiries about the Principles and Mission, email techtv at mit dot edu.

MIT Tech TV is a web site designed to support community through the aggregation and distribution of science, engineering, and MIT-related video on the web. Our goals are to

• Make it easier for members of the MIT community – and others – to find science, engineering, and MIT-related video on the web
• Feature videos appealing to and appropriate for people as young as 12
• Encourage the creation of web video by members of the MIT community by making it easier to publish and host video content

Here are some guidelines for users of the MIT Tech TV website. NOTE: Users of this site must accept our Terms of Use.

How does MIT TechTV work?

As a user of the site, you are able to upload video and have it hosted at no charge. You will then be able to link to your videos from your own web pages, and you will also have a range of choices for more broadly distributing your video content. Accounts and the ability to upload videos is limited to people with an mit.edu e-mail address, but anyone is able to watch videos posted to MIT Tech TV.

If you are a member of the MIT community, and you have exciting science, engineering, and MIT-related video content, upload it to MIT Tech TV! All you have to do is sign up for your own account (an mit.edu email address is required for account verification).

Piracy

The MIT Tech TV staff and user community believe that rules of property apply to the Internet as well as they do to traditional media. Unauthorized distribution of someone else's content -- including video, music, images and other media -- is theft and will not be tolerated on this website. That said, we are fans of licenses such as those offered by Creative Commons. We encourage everyone to look into Creative Commons licenses and adopt them.

Pornography and other inappropriate content

We will not accept or post content on this site that is inappropriate for an audience as young as 12. MIT Tech TV is a venue where people can exchange ideas, viewpoints, and entertainment. We want everyone to feel comfortable coming to our site — and we want everyone to feel comfortable allowing their children to come to our site. Many of our users have told us explicitly that they want their work to be showcased in a venue they can be proud of, and we are entirely dedicated to making MIT TechTV such a venue.

Community

We believe that content creators, viewers, and the MIT community at large are all stakeholders in MIT Tech TV. The site was designed — and is continually evolving — with the goal of being of service to the MIT community and beyond. We are making every effort to provide the tools and environment that the MIT community can take pride in and find useful. We are absolutely dedicated to maintaining an excellent relationship with the entire MIT community of content creators and viewers.

Every aspect of MIT Tech TV has been designed and improved based on direct interaction with the community of video producers at MIT. The MIT Tech TV staff regularly reviews every feature and aspect of the site and we will make changes based on community feedback. We see MIT Tech TV as a collaborative effort between the site and the community we serve.

Sustainability

We are building a sustainable community by always respecting the law, honoring the community we are a part of, and staying true to our principles. In the beta phase, MIT Tech TV is supported by the MIT School of Engineering and generous gifts from alumni and friends.