Exactly. Usually on sites like Reddit, it's not a problem unless the person posting the video claims ownership when it's not actually theirs. Reddit Karma is worth nothing, so it's no big deal if someone rips off someone else's content and gets highly upvoted for it, but on Steemit that could be a really big problem.
Even without the issue of claiming ownership, that raises the question of whether it's ok to post "Here's a cool YouTube video I found" type posts, or whether everything on here should be strictly original content, or public domain.
I suppose those are questions which will have to be answered one way or another if this place makes it big
winstonwolfe and zarjaz? This is my understanding of the law, but don't hold me to it, because I'm still in the learning process on this topic myself. If you embed a YouTube video into your Steemit article (post) that belongs to someone else, then you are not violating any copyright law inasmuch as you are sending business in that YouTuber's direction. Moreover, if the website where you are embedding a YouTube video belonging to someone else into an article that you are publishing has some kind of agreement with YouTube, then I presume that you are safe to embed any YouTube video you wish in your articles. However, if you DOWNLOAD a YouTube video on your own website and claim it as your own, then you are in clear violation of the copyright laws.
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