On 17 Jan 2014, at 19:11, Andrew Lih <andrew....@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 12:07 PM, Nathan <nawr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> One thing that hasn't come up in the debate is the relative importance of
>> Wikimedia's approach to video, given the existing video ecosystem. YouTube
>> enables cc-by uploading and has 4 million videos with a free license, and
>> 6.5 million videos that are explicitly educational. Are we sure focusing on
>> our own base of uploaded videos is the approach best calibrated to serving
>> Wikimedia's mission?
>> 
> 
> "In general, downloading videos that other people have posted on YouTube is
> not allowed."
> https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/56100?hl=en
> 
> Most folks have concluded it's a violation of YouTube's Terms of Service.
> 
> So much for the "remix" part if you want to do it outside of YouTube's own
> editor.
> 
> More here in the comments:
> https://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/27533

Doesn’t that break the terms of the CC-BY license, if not legally then at least 
ethically? The right to distribute copies is built into the license, no?

Thanks,
Mike


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