GigaomGood news for Europeans: embedding YouTube videos is legal after all
Merely embedding a video doesn’t constitute copyright infringement, Europe’s highest court ruled this week, as long as the video was already publicly available. Read more »
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Merely embedding a video doesn’t constitute copyright infringement, Europe’s highest court ruled this week, as long as the video was already publicly available. Read more »
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