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Is it ok for me to display these Youtube videos with Adsense?
I haven't seen anybody do this other than blogs, thus my question.
Thank you.
I'm going to have to re-read the TOS. I would think that showing my videos on my site would be OK but you never know.
I had also started to embed other relevant, apparently homemade, videos as well.
cg.
p/g
I am not hosting the videos on my website, the videos are displayed via TouTube
Although I went now for my own flash solution as the embedded videos only serve one purpose: to suck your traffic to youtube ..
And that youtube et al. cares about copyright must be a new thing .. ;)
Are Youtube videos always copyrighted?
Yes. In most countries (including the U.S.), works don't have to be registered to be protected by copyright.
The reason I thought it would be ok is I am not hosting the video's I am displaying them via YouTube using the embed option available, all of the videos are homemade and related to the topic of my website, what I did, I watched most of the videos decided which would be appropriate and grouped them that way.
What is the embed option for if its not to display them on other websites.
If the videos are copyright protected, surely by the people uploading the video's to YouTube who allows people to embed the video, they are aware that the video's will be displayed on other websites.
I don't want to put these pages online until I get confirmation.
The only reason I am asking this question is that I have not seen anybody else doing this other than Blogs, I have seen blogs with there peoples YouTube videos, but then again some of these people don't seem to concerned about Adsense TOS.
What is the embed option for if its not to display them on other websites.
Possibly to make it easy for the video owner to display the video on their own website.
It's possible, like flickr, that each video has its own license agreement. Some may be free to distribute and publish on your website and others may be restricted for viewing only on youtube.
You may want to go to the source (the publisher of the video) to get permission from them if you're in doubt.
This post on the adsense blog might be relevant (although it pertains to Google Video before they bought youtube I think):
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In their example, I'm sure Disney wants as many websites as possible to be showing the Cars trailer, but that may or may not be true for each individual video publisher.
Some people are very particular about where their original content ends up.
Possibly to make it easy for the video owner to display the video on their own website.
That is not true, I contacted Google about it. They told me that uploaders can elect if they wish to allow users to place their video code on other sites. If the embed code is available for a video, then they uploader has agreed to let other people show the video on their website.
I'd leave a link to some videos, but there are so many rude, racist, sexist, and otherwise offensive comments on youtube, I'm not going to do that.
However, even with embedding, if you go to click on the embedded image, it opens to the youtube source page in a new window.
When you scale the embedded video down, by, say, 1/2, so it doesn't dominate your web page, or to improve resolution, the play button (right arrow) is so small, most folks are likely to miss it. So what they click on takes them to the page with all the junk.
To the degree you want your site to be "professional," you have to limit your youtube connections. But you knew that anyway. I'm just playing with the technology now. Don't know how much embedding I'll do in the end.
Scaled-down youtube videos are quite 'cute'! :/ You just have to maintain the proportions so it looks right. (YouTube should get 16:9 framing some time for certain videos; DVD recorders already allow this.)
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I have Adsense also... Since Youtube provides open API, is there a problem on videos with Adsense?
As long as you're displaying YouTube videos in a way that's compliant with YouTube's policies, and the content of the videos complies with AdSense's policies (e.g. no adult content, etc.), you're welcome to put AdSense on pages with embedded YouTube videos.
Keep in mind that the AdSense crawlers can only read the text-based content of your pages, so adding video won't affect your ad targeting, but we do believe that video content can enhance the overall user experience and site appeal.
-ASA
