I do not know much if anything about copy right laws but I do know that youtube or whomever pulls the cords for the taking down of videos does not have a grasp of fair use. I uploaded a video of my cat playing fetch about a month ago and because my boyfriend had music on wile I was recording, the video got yanked for copyright infringement. You could barely here the music in the background!Yes, I can mute the video but then you would not be able to here my cat growl and make all the funny noises he does wile playing fetch. I also tried to upload a fireworks display me and my family watched on vacation and because there was music being played at the fair grounds the video was not even allowed to finish processing…You guessed it. All because of copyrights. Apparently a bell went off somewhere that said this video has …whatever and it was yanked before it was up on the site!
The Raven King explains all re Copyright useage…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAyQf8uykEw
And, do not forget to check your contents for probable copywrite violation; because you can not get good ranking for your page on different search engines, if it contains any sort of plagiarism. You can check them with AAfter Search. You need to paste your document in the search box as follows *** and click the web search button. The search engine gives the result in the form of percentage of similarity between the original document and re-written document so that one comes to know about possible copyright violation, if any.
So true!!! Not only on YouTube, there are so many social networking sites that do not really value how to copyright videos, photos, music and other stuff.
The quality info about youtube is out of date.
Youtube hosts 1080p AVC music videos. Some can be up to 270MB. Since the coming of 720p, Youtube invariably contains THE BEST QUALITY pirate music video of ANY free internet source. If I can’t find a high quality 720p+ video on youtube, I don’t bother looking anywhere else, because everyone else is still stuck in the VOB age.
I suspect that Youtube would be nothing besides Lolcats and conspiracy theorists without the modern copyright tactic.