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 _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
