Actually, there's a "Download MP4" button when I'm logged in as Wikimedia Hong Kong (channel owner). So if you want to transfer the videos, email me off-list and I'll add you to the admin list of the WMHK YouTube channel. Then everybody including the YouTube TOS will be happy. On 22 Jan 2014 19:58, "Andrew Lih" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 22 January 2014 01:49, Andrew Lih <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Yes, that's related to copyright and permissions of the material, but >>> what about that first sentence: >>> >>> *You shall not download any Content unless you see a “download” or >>> similar link displayed by YouTube on the Service for that Content* >>> >>> >> Jan pointed out that youtube2mediawiki.py doesn't actually "download" >> the video, so I think we're fine with the provisions of licensor's >> permission in the sentence below. >> > > Well not exactly -- just because the downloading is modularized into a > Python script doesn't mean it's not downloading. :) The exact code actually > does download: > > #download video and save to file. > u = self.opener.open(url) > f = open(filename, 'w') > data = True > while data: > data = u.read(4096) > f.write(data) > f.close() > u.close() > return True > > >> Commons is ultra-conservative with copyright, but doesn't really care >> about any other terms and conditions imposed by anyone else. So I think >> it's fine to transfer the videos from YouTube to Commons - no copyright is >> violated and the ambiguity in the YouTube TOS works in our favour. >> > > Yes, I do believe there's not much to worry about in this particular > situation. Just be aware that we're running afoul of the TOS, even if > Google is lax on enforcement. A violation of TOS could be used to go after > users in other less clear-cut cases. > > -Andrew > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l > >
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