Clever workaround! -Andrew Lih Associate professor of journalism, American University Email: [email protected] WEB: http://www.andrewlih.com BOOK: The Wikipedia Revolution: http://www.wikipediarevolution.com PROJECT: Wiki Makes Video http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Wiki_Makes_Video
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 7:43 AM, Deryck Chan <[email protected]> wrote: > Actually, there's a "Download MP4" button when I'm logged in as Wikimedia > Hong Kong (channel owner). So if you want to transfer the videos, email me > off-list and I'll add you to the admin list of the WMHK YouTube channel. > Then everybody including the YouTube TOS will be happy. > On 22 Jan 2014 19:58, "Andrew Lih" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> On 22 January 2014 01:49, Andrew Lih <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Yes, that's related to copyright and permissions of the material, but >>>> what about that first sentence: >>>> >>>> *You shall not download any Content unless you see a “download” or >>>> similar link displayed by YouTube on the Service for that Content* >>>> >>>> >>> Jan pointed out that youtube2mediawiki.py doesn't actually "download" >>> the video, so I think we're fine with the provisions of licensor's >>> permission in the sentence below. >>> >> >> Well not exactly -- just because the downloading is modularized into a >> Python script doesn't mean it's not downloading. :) The exact code actually >> does download: >> >> #download video and save to file. >> u = self.opener.open(url) >> f = open(filename, 'w') >> data = True >> while data: >> data = u.read(4096) >> f.write(data) >> f.close() >> u.close() >> return True >> >> >>> Commons is ultra-conservative with copyright, but doesn't really care >>> about any other terms and conditions imposed by anyone else. So I think >>> it's fine to transfer the videos from YouTube to Commons - no copyright is >>> violated and the ambiguity in the YouTube TOS works in our favour. >>> >> >> Yes, I do believe there's not much to worry about in this particular >> situation. Just be aware that we're running afoul of the TOS, even if >> Google is lax on enforcement. A violation of TOS could be used to go after >> users in other less clear-cut cases. >> >> -Andrew >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimania-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l > >
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