The Last Word on Posting YouTube Videos to Your Blog and a Scene from the Prescient Movie "Network"
On the very same day that the Volokh Conspiracy was worrying about the potential for contributory infringement resulting from its posting a YouTube video to his highly respected blog, Google, YouTube's owner, was saying the following to its eighty gazillion bloggers:
Blogging from YouTube
November 26, 2007
As you videobloggers already know, you can upload your videos directly to Blogger. But for the rest of the video watchers out there, did you know you can just as easily post YouTube videos to your blog?
All you need to do is set up your YouTube account to post videos to your blog using the "Share" button. You'll enter your Blogger information once, and from then on it's one-click sharing from any YouTube video page!
If there were liability for contributory infringement, you'd think this encouragement by YouTube's owner to post YouTube videos to its owners' blog sites would fit the bill.
So we're now resting even easier about posting YouTube videos. We're relying on Google not to be steering its blog customers into acts of infringment when posting its subsidiary's videos on its Blogger blog sites.
At some point we imagine (as Howard Beale in Network was asked to) the existence of a single corporate entity, unable to sue itself, sounding litigation's death knell.
