I wonder if this will encourage more teachers to upload and work with educational content on YouTube.

The YouTube editor has been around for a while.  It’s a basic, “mash-up” type, cloud-based editing system, providing a basic set of transitions and the ability to add a music track.  However, it’s just become a lot more interesting with YouTube’s addition of easy Creative Commons licensing, allowing anyone to copy, distribute, display and perform the work and make derivative works based on it if they give the author credit.

When you upload a video you have the option of giving it a CC licence.  Furthermore, once in the YouTube editor you are able to search for CC content which you can then add to your clips. You can then edit the CC material you have found as well as your own material to your heart’s content as long as the resulting video is also given a CC licence.