Youtube And Copyright.

[Khandro]

There are now so many full-length films on Youtube (which is great!) but are those responsible for putting them on and indeed those watching, not infringing some laws of copyright.

[grasscarp]

Yes. Things get removed if they fall foul of copyright laws. There is a lot of information here.
https://www.youtube.com/yt/copyright/en-GB/

[hc4361]

I have never found a full length movie on YouTube :(

[Khandro]

hc //I have never found a full length movie on YouTube :(//
I have just watched Ingmar Bergman's 'The Seventh Seal' in fine quality picture and sound with English subtitles; marvellous! haven't seen it for years.

There are hundreds of films on now.

[Khandro]

If that doesn't work, (I'm not in the UK), type 'Youtube,Bergman, Seventh Seal' or something like it into Google.

[hc4361]

How do you find them? Do you know what you want to watch and search for that?

[Khandro]

hc, Just Google; 'Youtube, full length movies' and you will get a drop down list of all the genres, Comedy, Sci-fi, Drama and whatever.

[hc4361]

ta

[HansUrbancka]

Copyright is regularly being infringed and You Tube 'police' are regularly removing full length films. However, they are removed to be illegally replaced by others.......such as :-

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9C5D4B99079364CD

Hans.

[Gromit]

A recent courtcase resulted in an undisclosed settlement (Google paid $millions to copyright holders). From wikipedia:

// At the time of uploading a video, YouTube users are shown a message asking them not to violate copyright laws. Despite this advice, there are still many unauthorized clips of copyrighted material on YouTube. YouTube does not view videos before they are posted online, and it is left to copyright holders to issue a DMCA takedown notice pursuant to the terms of the Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act. Three successful complaints for copyright infringement against a user account will result in the account and all of its uploaded videos being deleted.

Organizations including Viacom, Mediaset, and the English Premier League have filed lawsuits against YouTube, claiming that it has done too little to prevent the uploading of copyrighted material. Viacom, demanding $1 billion in damages, said that it had found more than 150,000 unauthorized clips of its material on YouTube that had been viewed "an astounding 1.5 billion times". YouTube responded by stating that it "goes far beyond its legal obligations in assisting content owners to protect their works".

During the same court battle, Viacom won a court ruling requiring YouTube to hand over 12 terabytes of data detailing the viewing habits of every user who has watched videos on the site. The decision was criticized by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which called the court ruling "a setback to privacy rights". In June 2010, Viacom's lawsuit against Google was rejected in a summary judgment, with U.S. federal Judge Louis L. Stanton stating that Google was protected by provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Viacom announced its intention to appeal the ruling.

On April 5, 2012, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reinstated the case, allowing Viacom's lawsuit against Google to be heard in court again.[228] On March 18, 2014, the lawsuit was settled after seven years with an undisclosed agreement. //

[hc4361]

I don't know how Dare have got away with it for so long - why does nobody enforce the copyright laws on that site? Films, tv series.

[hc4361]

You can buy it for a fiver (it's out of copyright)

http://www.armandmovies.com/cart/index.php?act=viewProd&productId=315

[Khandro]

hc; What harm is it doing? It's no different from reading a book from a library. Among my favourites are The Three Stooges (I recommend 'A Gem of a Jam') and Popeye, probably out of copyright anyway.

[hc4361]

When you borrow a book from a library the author gets the applicable payment; when you watch copyright movies on YouTube or other sources there is no payment. You are depriving people of their rightful income.

If you want to watch something why not pay? If it's not worth paying for, is it worth watching?

[Khandro]

hc; //If you want to watch something why not pay//
To whom?

[hc4361]

Buy the dvd from a shop or download the film from an authorised store such as Netflix.

[sir.prize]

Hi hc - you say you have never found a full length movie on Youtube - have you looked? There are hundreds in many categories.

[sir.prize]

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXHNNqmNkl9Y80IQzylF1RJRGWS2Uee6V

[Khandro]

sir.prize; Having first asked where to find them, hc now appears to be taking a high-moral stance on the watching of them.