Forum:Users should be allowed any youtube video on their user page

Why Can't people have non BBC posted Youtube Videos on their user page?


 * Because this site can in no way be seen to host copyright-violating videos. The question of where those videos are located is completely irrelevant.  If you were to upload the whole of The Masque of Mandragora — or whatever — from its (illegal) YouTube files, then you are directly depriving the BBC of revenue that it could reasonably expect to make on the sales of the DVD.  The BBC have, in the past, come down on some people on YouTube who've violated copyright in this way, and they'll likely do it again.


 * We don't want them coming down on us or Wikia.


 * There is simply no justification whatsover for posting video other than that which the BBC or its national broadcasters have released in a specifically embeddable format.


 * Please remember also that user pages are not yours. You don't have the right to do whatever you please with them.  Putting non-BBC video up on "your" user page violates at least two, rather clear  provisions of our user page policy:
 * This wiki "is not a free host or webpage provider". "Your" user page must be used — in the very broadest sense — to support your editing on this wiki.  We're very liberal about how we interpret this, though.  Even things which help the community get to know you as a person are generally allowed, as that ultimately helps consensus editing.  However, there is no way on God's green Earth that seeing all four parts of a Galaxy 4 reconstruction on "your" user page could be reasonably construed as a way to "get to know you".
 * The policy also states that "any illegal or inappropriate content or links to such material is forbidden". Video on YouTube which has not been provided by the copyright holder is most definitely illegal.  You may not embed it or even provide a link to it on "your" user page.'''


 * Now, that said, I can imagine an exception on a user page — one that tardis:video policy does not currently contemplate. Let's say you wanted to film yourself explaining your editing interests and your favourite things about the DWU.  That's be fine to upload to "your" user page — as long as it didn't included clips from copyright-protected stuff spliced into it —  because it would be directly relevant to your editing here and you'd be the copyright holder. But you'd need to write a little message on the file explaining that it is actually you and you're the copyright holder.  Otherwise I or another admin would summarily delete it.  14:39:41 Thu 09 Jun 2011