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Embedding Videos On Your Website- Is It Copyright Infringement?
There is a well known court case. Are you allowed to take videos from a video site such as YouTube and place them on your website?  
There are two parts to the answer of this question. One is that YouTube has specific terms of service and use that cover state that by uploading a public video you are giving permission for others to embed that video on their websites. But YouTube is not the only kid on the video block. There are hundreds of video hosting sites. They may not all have the same TOS as YouTube has. 
The Flava Works Inc v. Gunter ( MyVidster)  court case has been settled by the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. The court rules that a site that embeds copyrighted videos from another site is not committing copyright infringement. 
I know a lot of artists, authors and video producers don't like the sound of that ruling, nonetheless that is the future of copyright and the distribution of content. 
The higher court ruled against the lower court who had ruled that this was copyright infringement. 
This means that you can go to YouTube and choose videos to embed on your website. You can go to ... more

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