My question is.... Is it Fair Use to link directly to a vlog's video?
(People would probably call this "hot linking".)
NOTE: I'm NOT talking about re-hosting or transcoding. This would be getting the video straight from the vloggers site.
And more importantly, if it isn't Fair Use, should it be? And an equally important question, if it is Fair Use, should it not be?
Also (assuming you think it is OK to "hot link" to videos), what would be the "best" ways to do it?...
- Is it OK to use the HTML <a> element to link directly to the video? (Either llinking in text or a thumbnail or a flipbook of the video?)
- Is it OK to use the HTML <embed> or <object> elements to link directly to the video? This would essentially be playing video on inside of someone else's page.
- Should the "hotlinker" add any extra data along with the "hotlinking"? (Like the title, description, a linkback, etc)
- How does all this relate to (RSS and Atom) feeds?
- How does all this relate to semantic HTML usage?
- How does all this relate to SMIL usage?
See ya
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Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc.
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