Can I reload other people's video back on to youtube?

Of course you can't steal someone's video and upload it to your channel. It's copyright infringement. Both against Youtube TOS and the owner of the video can send you a DMCA to Youtube to get it taken down and you might possibly get banned for it.

No. Creative commons is a type of license the owner of the work grants. You can't just take it.

Suzanne is right, as I've had to do just that very thing myself.

I sincerely think it really would be of benefit for you to explain your plan a tad bit better or you could end up with people not thinking too highly of you as well as not being able to perhaps get more help and insight you may need.

Just saying...

Terra

LOL, Still trying to recover...

Let me say this is a video I made...It was intended for the War Room, but under the circumstances, I guess it's OK that it was posted here.

For the full discussion, see this War Room thread:
http://www.warriorforum.com/war-room...t-legally.html

While there's quite a few shouting "No! No! No!", I like it when people find a way to say "Yes". My video shows how to say "yes". And you don't even have to waste your time downloading and uploading. Youtube does that work for you.

Well, now, this just about sets the record for a distempered response.

There is nothing at all wrong with the original question or the person asking it. They simply would like some information.

It is not usually acceptable to simply download a video and upload it to your own channel. But that is not so obvious. Why?

The internet is a medium where, right or wrong, lines have been blurred about ownership of content.

For example, youtube was the subject of many lawsuits for copyright infringement, yet they continued to host large quantities of videos which they could have easily removed. The result: Many music publishers eventually captitulated and now actively promote their content on Youtube.

Google (same company, different name) appropriated the content from many books and published not excerpts but entire manuscripts without any rights assigned whatsoever.

And in this very forum there are threads and WSOs about content curation, where the content of others is used as the basis of entire web sites.

Perhaps the best example is the search engines themselves, built entirely from the content of others.

So the correct answer is not as simple as it first appears. In fact it is easy to envision scenarios where downloading videos and unloading them to your own site would not just be acceptable but encouraged. This would be the video equivalent of article syndication, where the creator of content not only allows but encourages the broad dissemination of their material by others.

Just because someone wrote something in a WSO, does not mean that it is legal or ethical. I'm sure that a lot of people here know right from wrong whether they see others do it or not.

Show me the thread where someone has posted this in the forum without anyone calling them out on it. Maybe in the dark recesses of the CPA forum where many of us never read, but I doubt it in the Main forum. If so, I'd appreciate the link.

Sure, there are creative commons licenses for some videos, but the question was, can I just rip a video ... any video and upload it to my channel. Common sense should tell you that no, if it doesn't belong to you, don't take it unless you actually do bother to check licensing and the license says it's ok with attribution.

As for the topic of curation ... curation, if done the way curation should be done is not stealing content. You use a short excerpt with link and attribution to other people's stories and then you add your own context to it, which comprises the bulk of the post.

Naturally, there are many people who are too lazy to do things the way they should be done and take the ball and run with it and automate the whole thing, which just makes curation nothing more than a fancy word for autoblogging. They forget the part about adding your own context and maybe even the part about "short" excerpt and attribution... don't know. Haven't looked into curation automation because in my opinion, that's not curation.

Totally agree I have seen several WSOs that give this methods
Its kind black hat so I wouldn't recommend it. You could use that persons video on your website if it was something related to your topic but link back to their video.

You wouldn't like it if someone stole one of your videos and re uploaded it under their own name now would you :p

Do you realise you just ruined your reputation on this forum? I won't add any more because it might involve words like idiot, moron, scammer, etc.

With all due respect, no one is up on a high horse, they are trying to answer your question with clarifications. You were asked exactly what you wanted to do, but failed to give more details, therefore those that responded trying to help you needed to cover all of the possibilities.

The answer to your question isn't cut and dry.

No, you cannot just download someone's video and upload it to your account claiming ownership as that is copyright infringement. A lot of videos have original content in them that the owner spent a lot of time creating along with creating the accompanying video.

There is an exception, and that is when the creator grants you permission to use it either verbally or as already stated, by a Creative Commons License.

I take it you've never had any of your work stolen, for if you had, you wouldn't be accusing others of being on high horses for becoming indignant when others advise to just steal other people's work.

Maybe you could understand it better this way.

You wouldn't like it if you had just bought a brand new car, had it customized with a different color of paint, graphics or pin striping, upgraded the wheels or hubcaps, put in an expensive sound system and then have someone lift it from your driveway claiming it as their own, would you?

Well, it's the same principle.

Perhaps next time you ask for help here on the forum, you could try not to dis the ones who try to help you.

Terra

Look at other people's video to get some ideas or benchmarking is fine, but, to me, not reload it and put it under my channel.

regards,
cherishwealth

I beg to differ with you on the bolded portion of your post, for I am far from a major company.

On more than one occasion, I've had to issue a DMCA take down notice through YouTube for people just downloading my work and then uploading it to their account. They also in the act of doing so, posted a low quality copy that looked like a cheap knock off, yick! So anyway, what you say isn't true at all.

I don't know about you, but I would certainly feel embarrassed if I went to my account only to find a video on my site blacked out with the statement from YouTube that the video was in violation of copyright infringement, not even mentioning the hit my reputation would take. Also for those who have developed a following and good income from their channel, just creating another one wouldn't be so simple and that isn't even covering the ethics of the thing.

The funny thing is, is that if they had only contacted me and asked if they could use it, I would have granted permission as long as credit was given. :rolleyes:

I still can't for the life of me understand why some people encourage others to do underhanded and unethical things that could destroy their credibility. :confused:

Terra

yes, like this one
YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. - creative commons

You can upload videos under Creative Commons licenses.

But you still need to read the details of the license.

Thanks.