On Thu, 4 Jan 2007 16:07:43 +0100, "Erik Moeller" erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
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.
I am using common sense. I am absolutely not suggesting that we don't link to YouTube period. If the video has a valid fair use rationale on YouTube then it's not a copyright violation. What I'm proposing is that we don't ignore the copyright status of YouTube links, since a lot of them are copyright violations and that could get us in trouble. As always I advocate a Clue-based approach, but some people seem to want to legislate anti-Clue. Jjay's version was best: *do not link to material that violates copyright*. Neat but not gaudy.
Guy (JzG)