On 4/10/07, Kat Walsh <mindspillage@gmail.com> wrote:

On 4/10/07, Andrew Lih <andrew.lih@gmail.com > wrote:
> On 4/11/07, Kat Walsh <mindspillage@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 4/10/07, Oldak Quill <oldakquill@gmail.com > wrote:
> > > On 11/04/07, James Hare <messedrocker@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > We still have to promote them, though. Does YouTube retain copyrights on the
> > > > videos uploaded to the website?
> > >
> > > I assume not. The BBC, for example, has an account and uploads pretty
> > > lengthy clips to YouTube. Perhaps Wikimedia should do the same thing?
> > >
> > > Being copyleft, our content can be reused quite freely (including
> > > being posted on YouTube). I simply contest using YouTube/Microsoft
> > > Live or any other such site which uses proprietory software as the
> > > *primary* distributor of our content.
> >
> > Yep, agreed.
> >
> > (Also, you can't download the videos from YouTube's site... really annoying.)
>
> Not formally, but there are lots of utilities and web sites that assist in this.

Which explicitly goes against their Terms of Service, of course. ("We
are doing everything we can to prevent downloads of video files from
the site," says a rep in a CNET interview.)

-Kat

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