YouTube: But Please Don’t
Posting full length clips from a video production on youTube is:
1) against the law
2) against halacha
3) breaking the agreement you make with YouTube when you click agree to terms and upload the file
4) STEALING mamash from people’s pockets.
5) just plain wrong.
A person shouldn’t fool themselves into thinking it’s ok just because:
1) I asked my rav one shabbos afternoon while he was eating a nice piece of herring and he said sure no problem.
There is a good chance your rav doesnt know what YouTube is and if you told him more details he’d say absolutely NOT.
Putting these videos on youtube is the same thing as making copies and standing outside the stores handing out bootleg copies before they enter.
An old teacher of mine used to always say. “If you ask half a shailah, you’ll get half a tirzteh”
2) The artists are sooo rich. How will it hurt them??
You know what? They aren’t rich and neither am I. Every time a person can watch even specific songs and segments from a DVD online for free they don’t have to pay for it. It means they don’t have to buy the DVD and that number multiplies quickly. It means the stores don’t make money, and that means my boss doesn’t make money, which means producers don’t get asked to do jobs and it means there are less CD’s and that means there is no reason for me to go to work anymore because there are no cd’s or dvd’s to design.
3) The industry won’t ever shut down, it’s all just baloney hype.
Nope – its not. Ever wonder why there aren’t more Jewish DVD’s? It’s simple, because it’s just too expensive and the risks are too great. It cost A LOT more money to create a DVD then a CD. The hits the industry takes on CD’s being copied are bad enough, people can’t take those same risks with DVD’s. Thats why there are just concert DVD’s and the random children’s DVD (i.e. uncle moishy/agent emes)
Don’t think it can’t happen – the industry may not ever go away, but it can easily get to a point where many less concerts are recorded and less DVD’s are made. The same goes for CD’s, and it very realistically can get to a point where the industry does indeed collapse.
Here is a sample e-mail I received from someone after asking them to take down videos which were uploaded to youTube (5 full songs from a recent Sameach concert DVD)
To Sameach Music
You requested from me yesterday to remove the **** and **** videos and i complied.
However, I will not take down the ***** videos, after speaking to a rav he told me that there’s no issur in posting a video which i bought with my money.If you choose to take it down via Youtube, I will keep om posting it plus alot more of the ***** and ***** videos again and again through different accounts.
We are living in a youtube generation where people do post all types of videos.
P.S. keep in mind that i only posted videos which came out about 2 years ago and not recent videos. – Gut Shabbos
Hey Sruly,
if you are already talking about copyright violations, have a look at designsbysruly.com. The source code tells me that the design was taken from freecsstemplates.com
They publish their stuff under a CC license which includes a paragraph, that forces you to include their name and a link on the bottom of the page. however you don’t do so. i like your designs, but it is not nice to take the designs that people have been working on for hours and days, without including their name on the bottom.
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For the record I started that design with a free template from that website but by the time I had finished tinkering with it the only thing that remained was that html tagline. Nothing remains from the original template design that I started out with so no credit is needed. If I would have just copy and posted the original design I would have given a credit. In fact if you look at the bottom of THIS blog template you will see that I didn’t take out the credit to the original designer. I don’t steal any photos I pay for every single stock photo online.
Even if what you suggested would be true, what would that change anything? A CC copyright is important but it isn’t causing any financial harm to the original creator and owner like explained in my post. Although I will still continue to do everything possible to give credit where Creative Commons copyrights apply.
I have never claimed to be perfect, I am just explaining whats wrong with uploading clips to YouTube.
Hey sruly….
1st tkx for your fast answer. YOu are totally right, you don’t have to include a credit for the way you used the “template”…. sorry for that
“Even if what you suggested would be true, what would that change anything? A CC copyright is important but it isn’t causing any financial harm to the original creator and owner like explained in my post. Although I will still continue to do everything possible to give credit where Creative Commons copyrights apply”
The question is not whether it causes financial harm to the author, the question is whether we accept that he spent hours and hours on creating the stuff we are using for free without mentioning his name on the bottom.
What concerns uploading clips to youtube, i think that this is a problem the jewish music industry always had. However, Sameach Music is in a pole position concerning that stuff, because with th e SMP and their free Vids on Youtube, you found a great way to promote& advertise your stuff but also to make people buy your stuff.
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