YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA

Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by nullc on Friday October 23, 2020 @06:00PM (#24874743)

Without the existence of youtube-dl, youtube itself is necessarily commuting copyright infringement over the a good portion of the CC-By-SA works uploaded to youtube.

(not all of them, since the uploader grants youtube a license... but if the work has copyright holders who aren't the uploader, it applies)

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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by slaymaker1907 on Friday October 23, 2020 @06:02PM (#24874758)

I think in that case the copyright infringement would be the uploader rather than YouTube, but IANAL.

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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by nullc on Friday October 23, 2020 @06:11PM (#24874834)

There are CC-By-SA works uploaded to youtube by google employees while at work.

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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by wang_li on Friday October 23, 2020 @09:11PM (#24876069)

Only if the employee is doing the upload as a function of their job can google have any liability. In any other circumstance google s protected by the safe harbor provisions of the law.

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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by kzrdude on Friday October 23, 2020 @07:18PM (#24875416)

I think you have a good case, if the copyright holder/author is also someone else than the uploader.

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