Video Streaming - Embed Videos

Hello,

I know that hosting copyrighted material is illegal.

However, is it legal to embed the videos? I take the videos from MegaVideo and Youku.

Is it legal what I do? Because as far as I'm concerned embeding or linking to a video is quite the same.

Waiting for your replies.

Regards,
Rad

 

Embeding copyrighted material is still infringement. Just linking to copyrighted material can be contributory infringement.

 

Agreed.As long as u link them or host them.Its copyright infringement of also know as distribution of copyrights.

 

There is very little reason to fear being sued for embedding YouTube clips into your site. Even if the clip is obviously infringing, the most likely outcome is simply that it will stop working after the rightsholder files their DMCA notice. Source: http://www.blogherald.com/2007/07/09/the-copyright-risk-of-embedding-youtube-clips/

 

This is still a hugely sketchy area in terms of law, the problem for people such as the MPAA is there are literally thousands of stream sites etc.

Really you should be fine with a stream ste ( with vids hosted elsewhere) as copyright companies etc have bigger fish to fry - eg. the link sources -- megavideo/youtube etc.