Nice
This is a pretty good one. The AP posts videos to its own official YouTube channel. Some guy embedded AP videos at a site he was editing, and he subsequently got a cease and desist from an AP lawyer, who is apparently unaware that the whole point of YouTube is that you’re supposed to put videos up there that everyone in the universe is encouraged to embed all over the place.
Did this the AP’s law-talkin’ guys miss this language from YouTube’s terms of service?
You also hereby grant each user of the YouTube Website a non-exclusive license to access your User Submissions through the Website, and to use, reproduce, distribute, display and perform such User Submissions as permitted through the functionality of the Website and under these Terms of Service.
OK, so the AP could conceivably have a separate agreement with YouTube that modifies these terms, but:
- Still. It’s YouTube, people.
- Occam’s Razor suggests that we should chalk this one up to stupidity.
April 14th, 2009 at 3:27 pm
Re: #2 – You just called journalists (and their lawyers) “stupid.” Expect the Spanish Inquisition any moment. Look what they were capable of when GHWB proved them wrong and picked Dan Quayle! You’d better grovel, and soon!
April 15th, 2009 at 8:24 pm
By “stupidity” I meant “subtlety, intelligence, and rugged good looks”