How is this allowed?!

[MarkRodriguez2012]

You can in terms of content usage. YouTube isn't outside the law any more than television is.

True, but one channel in a sea of millions is a lot harder to find than Kimmel. I'm pretty sure they could walk right right up to his house and sue if they wanted.

 

[NicsterV]

So do you think it's okay for me to post news fail compilations on my channel? NewsBeFunny has been making them for 3 years, getting over 133,000,000 views, and he hasn't gotten in trouble yet.

 

[Shakycow]

NewsBeFunny has been making them for 3 years, getting over 133,000,000 views, and he hasn't gotten in trouble yet.

How do you know they haven't gotten in trouble yet?

They very easily could have a 3rd party claim on every one of their videos. You wouldn't know they aren't earning any income from any of their 133M views.

Just because you 'think' someone else may be doing something doesn't mean they are. In simplest words, worry about yourself and don't violate copyright or any laws. There is no reason to concern yourself with what anyone else is doing since there could be any one of tons of explanations for it.

 

[NicsterV]

I do know they haven't gotten in trouble. You can easily see what network is claiming the copyright for each video.

 

[offbeatbryce]

It gets to be a muddy situation when it comes to compilations and broadcast news... for example, Jimmy Kimmel does his "This Week in Unnecessary Censorship" by using broadcast clips and remixing them to be his own thing. I'm fairly certain the term is "Fair Use". That said, YouTube monetization rules do clearly say you can't monetize compilation content of other people's work... but for that to be enforced someone would need to issue a copyright claim, and I suspect that most news agencies aren't all that concerned with that kind of thing because it doesn't really hurt them at all.

but if you had permission YouTube wouldn't care if you monetized