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You seem hungry under that bridge, so I will feed you some billy goats... If you could freely use anyone's music on your YouTube videos, wouldn't the net effec

You seem hungry under that bridge, so I will feed you some billy goats... If you could freely use anyone's music on your YouTube videos, wouldn't the net effect be that all music would be available for free to anyone? People would just get new songs as they are released (Chicken and egg here, where are they getting them from? They cannot yet get them from You Tube since we are waiting on the initial cat video) , slap then on videos of their cats (take an AVCHD video stream, load it into a video editor, take the chicken-n-egg Lady Gaga mp3, add it to the project, then render the video in h.264 or avi, or whatever) , and make them available on YouTube (upload the rendered video file to your YouTube account linked to your email address), where anyone could easily grab them, strip off the video, and have the song. Now they have to download some You Tube video grabbing program, probably violating the ToS of You Tube, and risking some sort of malware from the h.264 downloader, then strip the song from the video, then manually name the audio file and add the attributes to the file also. But probably where you said where anyone could easily caused some disagreement and hence the downvotes.

tzs 15y ago
Why would it matter that the account is linked to your email address? We are discussing the consequences of it being fair use to include arbitrary music in your YouTube videos. If it were fair use, then it would not matter if the copyright holders knew who you were. I realize you are just trolling, but could you at least try to troll consistently with the discussion?
- chopsueyar 15y ago
  Your intention to include the copyrighted music within your cat video, combined with your HN postings, would invalidate any fair-use defense. The only reason you are adding this music to cat videos is to circumvent copyright.

tzs 15y ago

Why would it matter that the account is linked to your email address? We are discussing the consequences of it being fair use to include arbitrary music in your YouTube videos. If it were fair use, then it would not matter if the copyright holders knew who you were. I realize you are just trolling, but could you at least try to troll consistently with the discussion?

chopsueyar 15y ago
Your intention to include the copyrighted music within your cat video, combined with your HN postings, would invalidate any fair-use defense. The only reason you are adding this music to cat videos is to circumvent copyright.