Follow up on the state of all the old videos I took down

First, let me preface this by saying that if you’re not in the know, read up on this post I made a whilesies back:

http://vivareverie.tumblr.com/post/148261227901/regarding-the-removing-of-my-older-videos

I made that post a couple of months ago now. With that being said, let’s return to present day, where a few things are a little different.

I know nothing about legal mumbo jumbo and I won’t don’t claim I do. I try to understand anything thrown my way, but a vast majority of everything copyright-law-related goes over my head, meaning there was a good chance what I was worried about in the aforementioned Tumblr post was unfounded. I only took those videos down out of worry, the thought that maybe some “distant repercussions” would happen because somebody might care… But then this video happened.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FqPUVg48lc

It’s a long watch (But highly entertaining if you have the time), and it addresses basically exactly my problem, addressing all the legal mumbo jumbo that I am so ignorant about.

So, the question is, is what I did illegal?

…No, or at least, it might be, but it might not be either.

From what I’ve surmised, this is Schrodinger’s legal case, it could either be legal or illegal, but there’s no way of knowing until it goes to court because there are no previous cases where this exact thing has happened. So the next question is… Should it be illegal?

…Well, if using full on clips for review/parody purposes are fair-use deem-worthy but using what are essentially a collection of curves from the show aren’t, then I think we can all agree that would be a little silly.

So, here is my final word on it all. Yes, I’ve brought all those videos back, even with the worry that something may be coming my way down the line. However, two things I want to accompany this with:

One, all those videos are completely unmonetized. This is mostly just reassurement on my side, I have no idea if it’s necessary or not, but it’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make if it puts my conscience at ease.

Two, I don’t and will not condone any usage of the leaked DHX assets. The only reason I want to keep those videos up is for archival purposes, to make sure my older work is out and about even despite all the changes I’ve gone through, I just want to make clear that I don’t want to imply anything of the sort relating to promoting asset-usage with me bringing all these old videos back.

Right. I think I’ve gone through everything I wanted to go through. One final thing to address is I talked about my current goings-ons in this video I made yesterday, including me bringing those older videos back. With that, I think everything is all good. Now if you’ll excuse me I have a ton of playlists to fix…