[WikiEN-l] YouTube links

[Oldak Quill]

On 04/01/07, Guy Chapman aka JzG <guy.chapman at spamcop.net> wrote:
> 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.

It would never come to trial, but it seems that internet copyright is
a very grey area at the moment. P2P technologies have been unfairly
blamed (and tried) for some of the uses they are put to. It has become
possible to be tried for facilitating copyright violation, rather than
committing it. In theory, we could be "facilitating copyright
violation", or supporting it, in the courts eyes, by linking to
copyvio YouTube videos.

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Oldak Quill (oldakquill at gmail.com)