Google-owned YouTube has the following notice on their upload page:
Do not upload any TV shows, music videos, music concerts, or commercials without permission unless they consist entirely of content you created yourself. Please refer to our Copyright Tips page for some guidelines and links to help you determine whether your video infringes someone else"s copyright.
Jeff Atwood comments:
It"s perhaps the ultimate case of cognitive dissonance: by YouTube"s own rules, YouTube cannot exist.
Then again, rather than hoping for change with services like YouTube, I"m hoping that copyright laws change -- ...
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