Remember, breaking YouTube’s terms of service does not automatically make it copyright infringement. But whatever rights Google may have doesn’t affect whether or not a third party can download the video without infringing copyright. The TOS covers what they can and cannot do with that content. Under the logic of this lawsuit, YouTube is adding a TPM to CC-licnesed videos uploaded to their platform, and CC licensees may NOT add TPMs according to the license terms.īut still, let’s say we’re talking about the larger subset of YouTube videos under the “Standard YouTube License.” Google has a license to the content when people post their videos on YouTube. And if YouTube says its TOS still trumps the terms of the Creative Commons license, then THEY are breaking the license terms. Using youtube-dl or any other tool to download those videos is permitted under those terms. Not the default option, I know, but even the CC BY videos designated as such on YouTube don’t have a download button that enables the same functionality as youtube-dl. In fact, YouTube has an option that enables you to release your YouTube video under a Creative Commons-Attribution license. YouTube’s terms of service gives Google a license to the content uploaded to their platform, but that doesn’t mean it’s copyright infringement if a third party (i.e., a user using youtube-dl and ISN’T Google) downloads it. If google doesn’t have permission to do it, then youtube’s end users don’t have the permission either. Thus taking videos outside of youtube platform is illegal, because google does not have permission to do it. Video authors do not need to give any more flexible licenses to google than whatever the upload button paperwork requires. But that doesn’t make it an inherent copyright violation, be it infringement or circumventing technical protection measures.ģ) The reason for the TOS forbid is because google has only required video authors to give a license to use the videos within the youtube system. Yes, YouTube’s terms of service prohibit downloading YouTube videos. moving the videos outside of youtube platform responding to an attempt to defend the court ruling that says YouTube ripping tools may violate copyright:Ī few problems with your attempted distinctions, point for point:ġ) youtube’s watch page is working exactly how google designed their web site to work.Ģ) youtube-dl on the other hand, does something that youtube’s terms of service are explicitly forbidding, i.e. In second place, it’s a lengthy comment from Rico R. This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is an anonymous comment about publishers claiming that their lawsuit against the Internet Archive won’t impact any of its services beyond the Open Library:Ībout as believable as Putin’s claim tat 96% of those polled wanted to become Russians.
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