Youtube

[Frank Binder]

"prohibited - but not under all circumstances" =o)


Dear Susan, Dear all,

my sincere apologies if I may interrupt some joyful sessions, but I feel
it is important to let you know that

youtube's Terms of Use (http://youtube.com/t/terms) specifically
prohibit any downloading (and probably editing) of videos (or other user
submissions). Presumably (and besides other reasons) this is to protect 
their users, esp. those who submit videos there, from being used (or 
viewed) "improperly". I think, as scientists working with data provided 
by other people, we can respect that.

Now, their videos might still be used, afaik. They seem to offer an
"Embeddable player" which should allow to play videos from youtube.
However, I could not find information on whether this works within
anything else than "other websites". Did anyone ask them?

Best, and least troublesome (?), may be to let youtube know, exactly
which videos you would like to use in which contexts and for which
purpose, and ask for written consent to do so. Does anyone have
experience in that direction?


This has been an issue at our institute as well. Thanks to our IT-admin, 
who informed us about youtube's terms of use some months ago =o)

Best, Frank




Susan Foster-Cohen wrote:

>  
> Hi, all.
> 
> Just wanted to say that I've been delighted at the hugely useful little 
> clips I've found on Youtube for my undergraduate language acquisition 
> course. If others have not thought of looking there, they may be 
> surprised at what is on offer. And they can be easily downloaded by 
> using one of the 'download from Youtube' programmes freely available on 
> the web.
> 
> If people want me to suggest some clips, I'll be happy to share the 
> links for the ones I'm using at the moment.  However, if you just search 
> 'child language' or 'language acquisition' you'll find them.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Susan Foster-Cohen
> 
> 
> 
> 
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