Re: **The Official Youtube Posting Thread**
Fuck. As far as I can tell any video that's been posted that was a clip from the Daily Show at all has been removed "due to copyright infringement" (including the one I UL'd myself so I could put it on my myspace page).
Now I understand that maybe at a very basic, simple level that yes it could technically be copyright infringement because you don't have any rights to the clip. But at the same time, I don't see how that could really apply if you're not even trying to get any financial profit off the use of that clip, however it is you're using it. And I mean it's not even like full episodes are being put up (but even if they were, it's not as if you could buy "season sets" anyway of the Daily Show on DVD or anything), it's just certain clips. Yes, if you're trying to sell or make money off of something in any way that partially utiltizes this clip, you should have to pay a licensing fee. Because you're using someone else's creative property (if even to a very small degree within your overall -- & otherwise original, perhaps -- production) to try and make a profit for yourself.
But in a case like this, you're not doing that at all. Hell if even you go to a particular network's website and watch some clips of their different shows (which it seems you pretty much can do that on all of them now), they're not making any money from you doing that. This is essentially the equivalent to that.
I just don't see what the harm is in letting people UL clips and scenes of these shows for others to enjoy and get a laugh from on a place like Youtube.
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Kevin
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