# A Meme to banish forever...

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-meme-to-banish-forever/499135
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [June 8, 2009, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-meme-to-banish-forever/499135 "2009-06-08T19:54:35Z")
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### Author: ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2009, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-meme-to-banish-forever/499135/62 "2009-06-09T16:08:35Z")

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BTW, here’s an [ATMB](http://boardstest.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=520495) thread about YouTube fragments (or clips from larger works) I posted earlier today.

Meat of the post from Mr. Zotti:

> [@What’s a YouTube fragment?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-a-youtube-fragment/499197/2):
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> 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:
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> [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/20/MNU412FKRL.DTL](http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/20/MNU412FKRL.DTL)
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> 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.

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