US Fair Use regulations state that you have legally obtained the media. YT’s TOS state that by using the site, you agree to not use third party tools to extract, alter, circumvent, etc. the technology they have in place to keep videos on their site. This is not about certian vids on YT that may be copyrighted, it is about ALL videos on YT remaining on YT in accordance with their terms. This is primarly bec the service is free for all of us to use and YT make profits from the ads and click thrus on the site. If you take the video out, they can’t get revenue. The YT TOS doesn’t care where you plan to take the extracted videos; it simply states don’t take them out unless the YT user has provided a download link.

As educators, you must learn to understand this and explain it to students. This is not an anything goes approach and fair use does not cover teachers/stud in every instance o fobtaining media. This is one of them and the directions listed in this post should not be provided to educators. Instead, ask the YT user for a copy of the video if you must use it in class, outside of YT.

http://www.slideshare.net/reneehobbs/copyright-and-fair-use-media-literacy-educon-jan-2009-presentation

(thanks http://twitter.com/bengrey for the link)

But I would argue too about fair use.

Most of the DVD’s shown in school technically should not be shown to an audience – the warning at the start says so – but many teachers will show sections of DVD shows/movies in a classroom setting.

In addition – most of the clips on YouTube are in breach of original copyright anyway, so actually we should not show any of them, ever. But I bet people do.

None of this makes it right – but it is all food for thought.

Many bloggers use voxpod to embed Youtube videos. It cuts out the dross of comments attached to something which might be useful for education. It also clearly lists the video as a Youtube video – so no ‘stealing of thunder’ there.

Fair use for education I say – despite the TOS?

Being chief in charge of the filter, our staff and students can use Youtube within school. It causes some problems, pupils do abuse the privilege at times but we are working on this. The benefits outweigh the disadvantages massively in my opinion.