> It kind of does make sense, like a Library would use the books at its disposal. Libraries don't really "use" books to produce anything, except to support acc

> It kind of does make sense, like a Library would use the books at its disposal. Libraries don't really "use" books to produce anything, except to support accessibility like translations or indexing. Their lending of books is under the first-sale doctrine, which wouldn't be applicable to YouTube videos streamed under license. > But what is not normal is that they will easily block, ban and sue you if you try to do the same, like if the catalog of content was belonging to them. Because they do have rights to the content. All of the content on YouTube has been licensed to YouTube, and the licensor has assigned some rights to them.