To avoid copyright infringement issues as much as possible to improve the odds of my reaction videos staying up over the years as youtube's regulations get more and more tightly legislated.

@@Grays_Plays I still don't understand that. If you're not making any income from that video reaction. Why would you have to worry about copyright. If I were to go watch that video on my own it would not be blurred.

@@Robert-x8v7c to be fair I am making some income from this video, and I'm quite likely able to because I've not infringed on the copyright of the original video by blurring it out. The owner of the audio/song gets a cut of the advertising revenue I make off of it which is a mutually beneficial arrangement that they seem happy with, but the copyright owners of video in general seem to be far less agreeable to that and are more prone to taking videos down, so I feel the need to avoid any potential issues by being cautious by blurring it. And whether I make income from a video or not doesn't make much difference anyway, I can easily still be argued to be infringing copyright law by making use of videos that I don't own the rights to redistribute. That's why reaction channels have videos taken down all the time, because in most cases we don't have permission to use other people's videos in this fashion. Whether its become a popular form of entertainment in recent years or not is irrelevant, it's still easily arguably as not strictly legal to just take other people's videos and reupload them like this. RU-vid doesn't really recognise the argument of fair use either which is a loophole that can be used to do so in other mediums, which is a shame and one can argue not fair but that's the reality to be mindful of for us content creators. Every case is different and it all depends on who the copyright owner is, youtube's constantly updating legislation, how accurate its algorithms are at recognising content, and and a million other things, but the short story of it all is that us reactors should be careful to transform the video we're using in some fashion to avoid the risk of committing acts of blatant copyright infringement, hence the blur. If you go watch that video on your own odds are good you'll find it on a channel that has permission to upload it. If you see other reactors uploading video unedited then that might be fine for that video now, but the rules can change in future and if they do it means that the reactors video can be blocked or deleted without their consent, and possibly result in a copyright strike in the process, (and 3 of those in a row means a deleted channel.) Does that make sense? It's a big messy business but the long and short of it is we can't just upload other people's videos without risking running into consequences.

@@Grays_Plays well I guess I see your point. But why am I able to watch the video. It's because I'm not getting paid.

I mean... the video is surely ample evidence to the contrary?

@@bill091_real it's on and off but yeah I'm not going anywhere. Cheers for checking in mate.

No te preocupes, no todo el mundo disfrutará de mi enfoque semicerebral para apreciar la música. ¡Que tenga un buen día!

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