[WikiEN-l] YouTube links

[Guy Chapman aka JzG]

On Thu, 4 Jan 2007 16:07:43 +0100, "Erik Moeller" <erik at 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)
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