[cc-community] non-commercial use questions

Lloyd cc at phizz.demon.co.uk
Wed Apr 30 14:02:53 EDT 2008


rob at robmyers.org wrote:
> Quoting drew Roberts <zotz at 100jamz.com>:
> 
>> Why am I not the publisher instead of YouTube?
> 
> Because it is YouTube that is making the work available to the public  
> with the precondition that this gives YouTube commercial advantage.
> 

The uploader is making it available to the public not youtube, without 
the uploader the work would not appear on youtube. Youtube just 
facilitates making it available, otherwise they are not a safe-harbor 
provider and liable for all copyright violations:
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/512.html





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