I Am Being Forced To Pay Money For Embedding Yahoo Videos. Is That Allowed?
Question by rnbguru: I Am Being Forced To Pay Money For Embedding Yahoo Videos. Is That Allowed?
Hey,
I embed yahoo’s music videos on my web site and have recently received an email from a group called ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Artists and Performers) telling me I have to pay them money for embedding the videos. While I told them that I was embedding the videos from Yahoo, they said it didn’t matter and that I would have to pay them anyway.
The person from ASCAP stated:
“Yahoo’s current license agreement with us
does not authorize the performance of ASCAP music on third party websites
using their embedded videos. Under copyright law, any website that streams
copyrighted music needs either permission from the copyright owner, or a
license from a representing society, such as ASCAP. Whether the content is
hosted is irrelevant since the performance is experienced under your URL,
and continuing to stream copyrighted music without a license is considered
an infringement.”
And then when I told him that Yahoo allows me to embed it (it has an embed code for videos) he told me:
“Yahoo can choose to allow their videos to be embedded, however, it is the
responsibility of the third party website for the content that they are
embedding. Not all videos have copyrighted material. As of now, Yahoo’s
license agreement does not authorize the streaming of ASCAP music over
third party sites that Yahoo does not own or control.”
So I have to pay money to embed Yahoo’s videos? Is this correct?
I’ve been trying to find how to contact Yahoo Videos and ask but every email I send to Yahoo just tells me that “this department isn’t responsible for Yahoo Videos.” If you don’t know if I have to pay money for these videos, can someone at least show me where to contact Yahoo Videos and to actually get a response?
@Pwinces – unfortunately, that wouldn’t solve my problem.. IF they don’t like me embedding from Yahoo, do you think they’d really be happy if I just hosted the videos myself?
@Kevin D – That’s what I’d like to do, but I wish Yahoo would somehow give me verification that it is okay. My worry with calling their bluff is that I don’t really want to spend 350$ (The amount they want) if I fail :-\.
Best answer:
Answer by Pwincess..x
Why not just delete them and use keepvid to get videos off youtube?
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