# What’s a YouTube fragment?

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**Created:** [June 9, 2009, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-a-youtube-fragment/499197 "2009-06-09T12:43:48Z")
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### Author: ![Ed\_Zotti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/fbc32d/32.png) [@Ed\_Zotti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ed_Zotti)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2009, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-a-youtube-fragment/499197/2 "2009-06-09T14:15:36Z")

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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:

[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)

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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