Community Guidelines

VideoPros is a community of professionals and a marketplace for premium videos. The quality of the community is determined by everyone. Whether you have a High Definition addiction, bleed Red Camera, sleep at your Final Cut Pro editing station or simply love great video – this community is for you. Please respect its integrity and professionalism. That’s what makes it special.

VideoPros features the most robust directory of video professionals in the world. To have your profile listed in the directory you must qualify as a "video pro."

A video pro is an individual or business shooting, editing, producing and/or distributing professional video with commercial intent or business value."

We’ve established a video review process to maintain the quality of the videos in VideoMarket. Skateboarding dogs, wedding bloopers and videos of Uncle Ned singing in the rain are not professional videos. Do not try to license them. VideoMarket is for professional videos only!

Everyone has a different idea of what defines a "professional video." For the sake of the community we’ve created a short definition to help us review submitted content. If you’d like to submit your ideas about what “defines a professional video,” we’d love to hear from you.

A professional video is any video that is “licensable,” or has inherent commercial intent and business value. That means there is a market for your video and people will pay money to license it. If you’re the only person who will watch your video, it’s not professional.

We review all videos that are submitted to VideoMarket. If your video is not posted and you think it qualifies please post in the forums. When there is a professional disagreement we let the community of video pros around the world decide what is and isn’t professional.

For more information about content licensing please see our Licensing Agreements.

When you create something original, you own the copyright for it. Likewise, when other people create content, they may have a copyright to it. As a creative community of professionals, you must respect the copyrights of others. If you’re not sure if something will violate someone’s copyright, the safest thing to do is to create something completely original, with images and audio you’ve created. If it’s all yours you never have to worry about copyright—you own it. If you’ve obtained a video, recorded something from a DVD or downloaded a video online, DO NOT upload or license it unless you have express written permission from the copyrights owner.

If you are a copyright owner of a video and think it is being used on VideoPros without your permission, please follow these directions.

This list is not meant to be exhaustive, but merely illustrative of examples of conduct deemed by VideoPros to be inappropriate, improper or harmful to VideoPros's reputation, products and services and therefore prohibited when using the VideoPros products and services or website. For a complete list of violations and guidelines please see our Terms of Use.

Examples of Content Violations

• Copyrighted material that you don’t own
• Dangerous or illegal acts including but not limited to incitement to violence, animal abuse or drug abuse
• Child pornography or exploitation
• Unlawful, obscene, defamatory or libelous material
• Sexually explicit content including but not limited to images of rape, bestiality, intercourse, masturbation, sadistic or masochistic abuse, explicit depiction of male or female genitalia or pubic areas, pedophilia or necrophilia
• Abuse, drug abuse, or bomb making
• Graphic or gratuitous violence – people getting hurt, attacked, or humiliated
• Gross-out content of accidents, dead bodies or similar things
• Hate speech which attacks or demeans a group based on race or ethnic origin, religion, disability, gender, age, veteran status, and sexual orientation/gender identity
• Predatory behavior, stalking, threats, harassment, invading privacy, or the revealing of other members' personal information
• False or misleading information about a product, service or service request
• Unprofessional or offensive comments about a User, Member, Service Provider, Buyer, VideoPros or any third party.

We Enforce These Guidelines

VideoPros reviews flagged videos to determine whether they violate our Terms of Use. Upon receipt by VideoPros of notice of the violations posted on the site, the content in question will be reviewed and may be removed from the VideoPros website. Appropriate authorities may be notified. Accounts are penalized for violations and serious or repeated violations can lead to account termination. If your account is terminated, you won’t be allowed to create any new accounts. For more information about how our Terms of Use are enforced and the consequences of violating them, please visit the Resource Center.