On 1/4/07, Guy Chapman aka JzG guy.chapman@spamcop.net wrote:
[[WP:COPYRIGHT]] makes it clear that ''knowingly'' linking to infringing material is contributory infringement (also that linking to copyvios makes us look bad). Given that many YouTube vids are copyvios, we can be argued to *nkow* that violation is likely, and looking the other way and whistling innocently does not seem to me to be exercising due diligence.
By that same logic, we ought not link to any site hosted on a free webspace provider like Yahoo!, since many of the sites hosted there contain copyright violations. I think that would be an excessive position that would deprive us from many useful external links. Moreover, many videos which are "copyvio" by Wikipedia's standards may well be found to be fair use by US legal standards.
Use common sense please.