[Publib] youtube--blog--copyright question

[Eric]

I can't speak for the legality of it, but there was a recent court
decision affirming that bloggers are not responsible for posting a
link to defamatory material. Perhaps the same principle would apply
here? In any case, YouTube is very diligent about taking things down
if requested by the copyright holder.

On 12/3/06, Miriam Bobkoff <mbobkoff at cybermesa.com> wrote:
>
> Youtube videos are meant to be shared, yes?
>
> So I could legitimately pull a youtube video into a post on the library's
> blog if I wanted, yes? Bloggers do it all the time. All I have to do is
> invent a hook that gives me an excuse and voila.
>
> But the videomaker has put a Sarah Brightman song as the soundtrack to his
> footage. Tilt. Surely I don't get to have a fourminute Sarah Brightman song
> playing on our blog...
>
> Of course I could just point to it with a link. Might do so. But, in fact,
> hunting around just now I found a news item that implies I ought not even
> to link to it, or anyway that some copyright-holders would like to make it
> so.
> http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2006/12/is_simply_linki.html
>
>
> Thanks for your advice or opinions.
>
>
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