[WikiEN-l] Should we not link to videos with musical soundtracks?

[geni]

On 1/26/07, Earle Martin <wikipedia at downlode.org> wrote:
> On the article [[Rotherhithe Tunnel]], an editor removed the link to
> this video "because the soundtrack is a copyright violation":
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqTUEkju5j0
>
> It's a video of driving through the tunnel, on top of the audio of
> which the maker of the video has sardonically overlaid "Road to Hell"
> by Chris Rea, which is faintly amusing.
>
> [[WP:C]], quoted at the top of [[WP:EL]], says: "If you know that an
> external Web site is carrying a work in violation of the creator's
> copyright, do not link to that copy of the work." Is using music on a
> video "a violation of the creator's copyright",

Unless you have permission yes.

> or even "a work" in
> which the quoted wording was intended to refer to?
>

Eh probably. Might be able to get the author to give us a copy without
the added soundtrack and we could host it localy.

-- 
geni