Just received an email from YouTube:
Dear Sandeep,
When we are notified by an authorised representative of the copyright
holder that a particular video uploaded to our site infringes another's
copyright, we respond promptly, as the law requires. We terminate accounts
when they are found to repeatedly infringe copyright. Because you have had
other videos rejected in the past, we are unable to reinstate your
account.
Recording a television show, sporting event, or concert on your video
recorder doesn't necessarily mean that you own all necessary rights in
that video to upload it to our site. This is true even if the event or
show you record is open to the public. For example, you may be able to
video tape a professional sporting event, but the league or owner of the
professional event is generally allowed to control who captures images of
that event and how they are distributed, including digital recordings and
photographs. Similarly, video taping a concert of your favourite band does
not necessarily give you the right to reproduce and distribute the video
images of the band or the music captured in that video without permission
from the music publisher (who represents the song writer). Often times,
these videos were captured against the rules of the venue or sporting
arena in which the event took place, and someone specifically owns the
exclusive right to distribute video of that event and/or the accompanying
audio track.
The phrase "derivative works" refers to creations such as remixes, where
you might take images or sound from a recording and edit it into something
new. Although the new video is your own creation, the images and sound
you've used still belong to someone else. It doesn't matter if you
recorded it for free from television, purchased a DVD, or recorded it
yourself at an event-- you still need permission from the copyright
holder(s) of the material you drew upon to make your new creation.
Please refer to our "Copyright Tips" at
YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. where we've provided some
guidelines and links to help you determine whether your video infringes
someone else's copyright.
If videos remain on the site that appear similar to the ones we've
removed, we are likely either not aware of them or do not have reason to
believe they are infringing. Sometimes a copyright owner authorises some,
but not all, of its works to appear on our site. At other times, very
similar videos are owned by different copyright owners and one may grant
permission while another does not.
If you have any questions about the rules to which you agreed when you
became a member of YouTube, please refer to our Terms of Use located at
YouTube - Broadcast Yourself..
Yours sincerely,
Vicky
The YouTube Team
