Rights and permissions

The questions that cost clippers their accounts.

Six answers, written for people who cut clips for money. No hedging, no myths about how many seconds are safe, and no pretending a caption is a licence.

• 01Is it legal to repost someone else's video?No, not by default. Cutting and reposting someone else's video needs their permission, a licence, or a genuine exception. Nothing about the clip being short changes that.
• 02Does “no copyright intended” protect you?No. “No copyright intended”, “all rights to the owner” and tagging the creator have no legal effect. They are not permission, and permission is the only thing that counts.
• 03What a clipping campaign licence actually lets you doA campaign brief is a limited licence. It usually permits the listed sources, on the listed platforms, for the campaign period, and nothing beyond that.
• 04Content ID claim or copyright strike: what happened to your clipA Content ID claim is automated and usually moves the revenue to the claimant. A copyright strike is a legal removal request and threatens the channel itself.
• 05Fair use, honestly: when it covers a clip and when it does notFair use is a defence you raise after being sued, not permission you grant yourself. For clips cut to earn per view, it rarely applies.
• 06Where to find footage you are actually allowed to cutCampaign marketplaces, CC-BY uploads, public domain archives and your own or your client's recordings. Each has conditions worth reading before you cut.