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YouTube's Unspoken Linking Policy For Copyright Infringers

Posted by timothy on from the doesn't-seem-unreasonable-from-here dept.

Hackajar writes "Valleywag has an interesting post detailing YouTube's new way to deal with copyrighted music videos, removing embed tags and linking it to the official content on site. What's significant here is the lack of video removal by YouTube staff. From the post, "Uploads of music videos from the band by non-official sources now carry a link reading "Contains content from [insert studio here]"". They use a Modest Mouse music video from a third party to illustrate the new change."

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  1. Re:YouTube's unspoken policy for fair users by ady1 · · Score: 1, Troll

    A society is not oppressed when you don't' have the freedom to watch movies or listen to music. It is when you can be held indefinitely without any trial.

    Living in Canada, I don't see any difference between US and Saudia in this regard.