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What is the legal distinction between watching a YouTube video in a browser and downloading it for personal use? [duplicate]
If the act of watching a YouTube video creates a temporary download in my internet cache, why is it illegal to use an app that intercepts the YouTube API to download music videos to listen to later ...
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Using a recipe in a YouTube video [duplicate]
What is the legality in using a recipe in a YouTube video? Should I cite the cookbook I got it from (I would do it either way)? And should I get the author's permission to use it? What else should I ...
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Would Joel Tenenbaum or Jammie Thomas-Rasset be sued today?
What I understand is
Technically, Joel and Jammie were sued for uploading.
Practically, Joel and Jammie were sued for downloading and were unfortunate victims of not turning off seeding after ...
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Fair-use of mathematics educational YouTube series based on "Byrne's Euclid" (1847) and its latest renditions
I want to create a mathematics educational video series on YouTube based on "Byrne's Euclid" (1847), which in turn, was a rendition of "Euclid's Elements" (circa 300 BC). The ...
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Is it legal to use others Youtube videos on my website to teach people
First time in this exchange community, if my question needs editing please let me know.
I'm wondering is it legal to use/embed youtube videos on my own website (domain in canada). What the website ...
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Can we legally monetize the translation of videos on our service using YouTube API? [closed]
The question arose whether we would violate API policy when creating a new service ( 7th and 9th point in the link https://developers.google.com/youtube/terms/developer-policies)
We are a team of ...
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Is it legal to copy a design in a Youtube video?
I'm thinking about making a Youtube video in which I would model in 3D the design from a 2D game and 3D print it.
Would I be allowed to do that, without having to ask the permission to the designer of ...
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Does YouTube legally need proactive takedown?
YouTube needs to figure out what to do about people posting copyright material. The actual solution they arrived at, after some negotiation with the media companies, includes programs that scan ...
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What is the legal significance of stating that one does not own or claim rights in an uploaded youtube video?
I mean often you see uploaded videos containing content presumably copyrighted by 3rd party with the uploader stating:
"I don't own any rights in this video"
What effect does stating such have? Is ...
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Does microphone recording of audio content from YouTube violate terms of service?
I would like to study the audio patterns of certain recordings on YouTube for scientific purposes, but don't want to violate their terms of service or any laws. Can I:
play a youtube track,
record it ...
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Fair use: is legality of use determined separately from legality of source?
Youtube and other content sites have extensive resources (Youtube Fair Use Guidelines) that describe the conditions for fair-use. However, these do not contain adequate treatments of legal content ...
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Is downloading YouTube videos legal?
I've always been under the assumption that doing such was illegal. I don't see any difference between downloading music from YouTube and downloading music from The Pirate Bay.
Apparently, there is ...
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