User:Bussakendle/YouTube License System

The YouTube License System  is a system of rules, used to saveguard the interests both the authors  Copyrights, as well these of YouTube. As it is a part of IT law, these rules are to be followed, using YouTube. These rules are complemented by fürther terms. Ther are regional differces. Especially YouTube defines the use of its services as accepance of its terms of use

Importance
The importance of these rules is given by the number of events, uploads, views, downloads, they concern.

In 2015 there were 400 hours playing time uploaded every minute,
 * Uploads

YouTube's Video portal is accessed by 1 one billion times a month by active users worldwide. As the view of any Video clip or Video is related to financial interests or revenues, therefore click fraud occurs. . YouTube's Revenues were expected to 3,96 billion US $ in 2018.
 * Downloads

There are 5 billion videos watched on Youtube every day.
 * Views

Goals
The system of YouTube licenses is to secure the coprights of their owners, especially those of videos and defines rules for the use of these videos. On behalf of this, the owner of the copyrights has to be declared in the content manager-account. The system protects also the economical interests of YouTube. YouTube itself uses the adjoint cookies for evaluation, e.g. for advertising and its optimization

User types
YouTube addresses to different types of users, according the form of their use of its services. This includes also subscription business models

Viewers – unregistered users – receive cookies, allowing an analysis of their user profile. Viewers must follow the copyright rules. The limits for download, copying and sharing YouTube content is limited by the adjoint license.
 * Audience

YouTube members (registered users) are to follow the terms of use.
 * YouTube members (Community)

The primary authors – the producers of original content – may only upload content they own the coprights.
 * Authors

API authors – the providers of access of content to YouTube –  have to follow the Google software rules.

The copright owners must declare their claims.
 * Copright owners

YouTube as secondary copright owner – due to ist terms of use  claims a non-exclusive cost-free license including the permission of sub-licensing.
 * YouTube

License types
YouTube provides several types of licenses.

Standard YouTube license
The standard-YouTube license is the default upload license. The terms are listed b the terms of use]].
 * Upload

The standard-YouTube license allows to passive users – the viewers – rights, the active user – the author – has licensed to YouTube, Restrictions of the use by YouTube (and ist affiliate companies) by the author are also valid for viewers. YouTube's offer, to embed a file, does not mean the permit, to do that, though a code to implent this, is offerd by YouTube.
 * Download

Creative commons license
By the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC by) YouTubers may allow the use of their work to other persons. The CC by license allows both use and modification.

Within the United States the rule of Fair Use allows reuse of copyright-protected material without license.
 * Fair Use rules

Sanctions
Publishing copyright protected work without an appropriate license on YouTube may be reported by the copyright owner to YouTube. API-Programmers, not following the rules for the YouTube API services, may be sanctioned by restrictions and/or admission refusal.
 * Authors
 * API-Programmers

Saveguards
Content filter, controling videos during upload on copyright violations are used to ensure publishing of legal content only.

Application
Embedding of videos by Hotlinking is following the European Court of Justice jurisdiction nevertheless legal. , as no different public is addressed.
 * Embedding of videos

Authors may prevent embedding for YouTube. This means an active license terms definition which is compulsory for users.

Consequences of embedding are given by the cookies, the content is connected to, These cookies are then linked to the embedding content.

As the embedding of previews (Thumbnails), avoid the transfer of cookies, may this be a breach of the terms of the license.
 * Preview

Hyperlinking to YouTube content may be a copyriht violation, if the link targets content, published illegally. As YouTube uses an upload filter private users can assume legality.
 * Linking