Using questionable youtube videos

Copyright infringement?

[jmorgan]

Could I be accused (or in the worst case sued) for copyright infringement if I embed a youtube video that was uploaded by someone else onto the youtube site?

After all, I'm not the one hosting the video and I wasn't the one who uploaded the video in the first place.

Is the onus purely on youtube to handle videos which infringe on the copyright of the owner of said video?

[Major_Payne]

Hard legal question to answer, but I would say in would fall on YouTube as long as you did NOT "steal" it from the web page in a way that is not the normal copy/paste of the given HTML code sometimes supplied by YouTube. I am not a lawyer, so you would be better to seek real legal advice if you suspect you may have a problem in this area.

[Musicarl]

I've had people complain about videos we embed, and once I point out that their beef is with YouTube, they understand that they have to kill it at the source. I think it would be a huge stretch to find you liable for a video that came with embedding enabled from YouTube unless you were doing something willfully malicious.

[SevenByThree]

Embedding is not usually a problem for you unless the content is really beyond the pale and breaks more laws than copyright. Companies will focus on taketown notices directly to YouTube.

[dogweather]

Copyright owners of audiovisual works have exclusive rights such as distributing, publicly performing, and publicly displaying the works. A person who violates these rights is infringing. These exclusive rights do though, have a few limitations, such as for Fair use and Reproduction by libraries and archives.

Does this help?

[copyright.gov...]