On Mon, 07 Jun 2010 20:20:35 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:

>>>> Generally with Youtube they resort to DMCA takedown notices for the
>>>> US.
>>> I thought they just generally scrubbed the audio out. (I.e., reencoded
>>> the video with no audio track.)  And with the DMCA takedown, youtube
>>> just takes it down unless/until you argue they shouldn't.
>> 
>> I don't think YouTube alters the video, it may be that users repost
>> with the audio scrubbed out.
> 
> http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en-
uk&answer=117597

Interesting, I didn't know that - but that would seem to answer the 
question about you posting a clip.  If the audio infringes, you may end 
up with it muted, in which case just mention the name of the song and 
artist somewhere, and we can imagine. :-)

Jim

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