# Video sites and copyrights **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 29, 2006, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-sites-and-copyrights/350448 "2006-03-29T19:34:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2006, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-sites-and-copyrights/350448/1 "2006-03-29T19:34:50Z")
There are now many sites that will host your video clips for you (yourtube, for example). It think the intent was to host personal home videos but I have noticed that many of these now include rips from commercial video DVDs. With all the fuss by the music industry about peer-to-peer sharing, isn’t the DVD industry just pissing its pants about these videos being made publicly available for free? Isn’t anybody putting the hammer to these sites? ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2006, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-sites-and-copyrights/350448/2 "2006-03-29T20:02:16Z")
Once they find copyrighted material on them, you can bet the MPAA will be there with a subpoena. They will probably go to the site owner first, who will have to take down anything that’s a violation. I note that the Terms of Use of Youtube specifically forbids the uploading of anything you don’t own the rights to: > [@](#): > > You shall be solely responsible for your own User Submissions and the consequences of posting or publishing them. In connection with User Submissions, you affirm, represent, and/or warrant that: (i) you own or have the necessary licenses, rights, consents, and permissions to use and authorize YouTube to use all patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights in and to any and all User Submissions to enable inclusion and use of the User Submissions in the manner contemplated by the Website and these Terms of Service; and (ii) you have the written consent, release, and/or permission of each and every identifiable individual person in the User Submission to use the name or likeness of each and every such identifiable individual person to enable inclusion and use of the User Submissions in the manner contemplated by the Website and these Terms of Service. If you tried ripping a DVD, that’s against their terms of use and they’d both take it down and kick you off the system. ---
**Author:** ![bradministrator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a698b9/32.png) [@bradministrator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bradministrator)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2006, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-sites-and-copyrights/350448/3 "2006-03-29T23:00:12Z")
NBC C&Ded youtube when “Lazy Sunday” exploded all over it like bomb frosting. So now you have to go to [nbc.com](http://nbc.com) to watch “Lazy Sunday” and youtube to watch all 8000 painfully tiring “response” video. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2006, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-sites-and-copyrights/350448/4 "2006-03-29T23:14:21Z")
CBS also brought the hammer down on YouTube after people started posting clips from a CBS news broadcast about an autistic high school basketball player. However, many outlets are using YouTube as a promotional tool, placing clips from upcoming TV shows or other goodies on these sites as a way to promote their shows. Perhaps the most interesting recent example was the live-action _Simpsons_ opening sequence. Commissioned by SkyOne, which broadcasts the show in the UK, the sequence was never aired on television and intentionally placed on YouTube and other sites to create word-of-mouth for both the sequence and the upcoming new season of _The Simpsons_. They recieved permission from the show’s producers and Matt Groening to produce it- in fact, Groening liked it so much, it replaced the traditional opening in the most recent episode.