On 04/01/07, Guy Chapman aka JzG <guy.chapman(a)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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