A Meme to banish forever...

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BTW, here’s an ATMB thread about YouTube fragments (or clips from larger works) I posted earlier today.

Meat of the post from Mr. Zotti:

@Ed_Zotti

Posting of short excerpts of copyrighted works on YouTube in our view constitutes fair use and is permissible under copyright law. YouTube has a process by which copyright holders can ask that a posted video clip be removed; this is discussed in:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/20/MNU412FKRL.DTL

YouTube is a subsidiary of Google, a large, reputable company. Our default assumption is that any video clip on YouTube has been posted with the tacit (at least) approval of the copyright holder and may be legally viewed.