How can sites like youtube post copyrighted videos?

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How can sites like youtube post copyrighted videos?

and the little guys like us get in trouble for doing the same

skunker

12:52 pm on Jul 11, 2006 (gmt 0)

Hello everyone,
How is it so that websites like myspace, youtube, Google Video, etc can legally post copyrighted clips (sometimes entire episodes!) on their sites without getting into any legal trouble when people like me, that have a little known site, can get sued over night for posting the same thing?

It just really pisses me off sometimes when it's those of us that play by the rules, only to get in trouble.

Any thoughts?

vite_rts

1:01 pm on Jul 11, 2006 (gmt 0)

They probably pay for a license to do so

Lobo

1:35 pm on Jul 11, 2006 (gmt 0)

They can not hold licenses for such an broad depth of images, so obviously they throw any copyright issues back on the Users..

I don't know why you find it so surprising? small businesses try ( for the most part ) to do the right thing, but big business plays by different rules and do whatever they can get away with, we've lived with that status quo all our lives, so the fact it goes on in the internet market is surey not a surprise?

Check their TOS [youtube.com...]

[edited by: Lobo at 1:36 pm (utc) on July 11, 2006]

skunker

2:21 pm on Jul 11, 2006 (gmt 0)

I know, i'm just venting.

Jane_Doe

4:53 pm on Jul 11, 2006 (gmt 0)

For some videos youtube has a message that "This video has been removed due to copyright infringement." They did this with the Stephen Colbert video from the White House Correspondents' Dinner when C-span complained.

Yet C-span allowed it on Google videos, so I'm not sure what was up with that.
[video.google.com...]

Colbert, in his Bill O'Reilly spoof persona, skewered Bush and the whole news media, so it didn't get reported on much in the mainstream media, but the skit was a big hit on the Internet. Millions of people downloaded the video and many people had links to the skit on youtube from their blogs, so it created a pretty big uproar when it was taken down.

On their website, the nonprofit C-span claims that, "Our mission is to provide public access to the political process" so it would seem to me that taking the most watched program ever to appear on C-span off youtube was not in alignment with their mission statement.