Actually, there's a "Download MP4"
button when I'm logged in as Wikimedia
Hong Kong (channel owner). So if you want to transfer the videos, email me
off-list and I'll add you to the admin list of the WMHK YouTube channel.
Then everybody including the YouTube TOS will be happy.
On 22 Jan 2014 19:58, "Andrew Lih" <andrew(a)andrewlih.com> wrote:
On 22 January 2014 01:49, Andrew Lih <andrew(a)andrewlih.com> wrote:
Yes, that's related to copyright and
permissions of the material, but
what about that first sentence:
*You shall not download any Content unless you see a “download” or
similar link displayed by YouTube on the Service for that Content*
Jan pointed out that youtube2mediawiki.py doesn't actually
"download"
the video, so I think we're fine with the provisions of licensor's
permission in the sentence below.
Well not exactly -- just because the downloading is modularized into a
Python script doesn't mean it's not downloading. :) The exact code actually
does download:
#download video and save to file.
u = self.opener.open(url)
f = open(filename, 'w')
data = True
while data:
data = u.read(4096)
f.write(data)
f.close()
u.close()
return True
Commons is ultra-conservative with copyright, but
doesn't really care
about any other terms and conditions imposed by anyone else. So I think
it's fine to transfer the videos from YouTube to Commons - no copyright is
violated and the ambiguity in the YouTube TOS works in our favour.
Yes, I do believe there's not much to worry about in this particular
situation. Just be aware that we're running afoul of the TOS, even if
Google is lax on enforcement. A violation of TOS could be used to go after
users in other less clear-cut cases.
-Andrew
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