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Fair Use/ Fair Dealing label in the license options

Open strypey opened this issue 5 months ago • 2 comments

Describe the problem to be solved

I have downloaded a a number of public interest videos from YouTub and published them on a PeerTube server. Because I think the topics they cover are of socio-politically important, and I want people to be able to see them without being exposed to manipulative recommendation algorithms and proprietary JavaScript. Here's an example; https://peertube.nz/w/4kJGGBd7Dm2WpwVS2FDWC8

Because my intention is for people to watch these videos for the purposes of 'Research and Private Study', I believe I have a legal right to do this under the "Fair Dealing" exemption in NZ copyright law. Roughly equivalent to "Fair Use" in US copyright law. This is explained in the video description, but the license field in the published video says "unknown", which isn't strictly accurate.

Describe the solution you would like

I would like to be able to choose something like "Fair Dealing"/ "Fair Use" as the license option when I publish a video.

Bonus points for localisation, so that I see "Fair Dealing", while someone publishing a video with a US localisation will see "Fair Use".

strypey avatar Aug 30 '24 10:08 strypey