When YouTube videos can't be played in our blogs
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Often, for copyright reasons, YouTube videos don’t work in the blog. I can embed it, but whe they get clicked in the post, the screen goes black and says: This video contains content from EMI (or such) and cannot be reproducted on certain sites – you can check out today’s post “Comic Saturday of Tragic Heartbreak”. Now, I try and avoid posting these videos, but as I post 1 song a day, it is annoying to be so limited in choice. Sometimes I ask my readers to click twice to watch on YouTube, but it doesn’t seem very professional. I could put a hyperlink above the video, which would then serve just as a picture, but I don’t find that satisfying either. I have noticed that on some sites, when you hit “play” on the video, it AUTOMATICALLY opens on YouTube: can I achieve this on wordpress? How? Thanks for letting me know if this is in any way possible.
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Hi. Someone asked a similar question before, here’s the answer:
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/utube-not-working?replies=6 -
Thank you. I agree with you guys that this isn’t a wordpress issue, but in the exchange I didn’t find the answer to the specific question: is there a way I can embed the video, so that when someone hits “play” it automatically opens on YouTube? And thank you so much for your time – support is temporarily disabled :-)
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For the video to play automatically, I guess you’d have to create a text or image link to the YouTube video. Something like:
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/etc" target="_blank">Watch this video on YouTube</a>And thank you. I had no idea support was closed…
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@serenainthesky
What you are proposing is that due to the fact Youtube is respecting the copyright of the video’s owners such as but not limited to EMI and UMI and doing exactly what those copyright holders specify which is to allow the viewing of the videos only on the Youtube site,then your suggestion amounts to asking wordpress.com to authorize their Staff to breach copyright law. I don’t think that’s a sensible suggestion at all. -
@serenainthesky
What you are proposing is that due to the fact Youtube is respecting the copyright of the video’s owners such as but not limited to EMI and UMI and doing exactly what those copyright holders specify which is to allow the viewing of the videos only on the Youtube site,then your suggestion amounts to asking wordpress.com to authorize their Staff to breach copyright law. I don’t think that’s a sensible suggestion or an admirable one either. -
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Maybe I wasn’t clear: I’m suggesting that once I have embedded the video, clicking on play wouldn’t play the video on my blog, but would open the YouTube page directly on this song, just as the hyperlink would do – only the still of the video looks nicer on the blog than a hyperlink. I’ve seen this on other sites. Sorry if my English isn’t spot on, I’m Italian :-)
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Okay I understand what you are asking now but I’m confused. We can embed youtube videos that do no play on our blogs and display the “must be viewed on youtube site message. You have already done that here > . http://scrivoxvizio.wordpress.com/2011/04/02/comic-saturday-of-tragic-heartbreak/ and you can continue to so this. I do not believe there is a means of wordpress.com changing the video you embed in order to do as you wish. Perhaps another Volunteer who knows more can chime in with something useful.
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Thank you – that is the reason why I thought we could suggest the team to work it out: they do work wonders :-) It would be “cleaner” in my view if instead of doing as in the post you mention, it would simply bring us on YouTube directly. Thanks again for your time – ciao
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The issue is essentially a MONEY dispute between WordPress.com and Google, which owns YouTube. Those videos are embeddable on my independently-hosted blogs, but not on my WordPress.COM blogs. Google shares ad revenues from YouTube with the music companies, and they know that WordPress puts adsense on our pages and does not share it with them, so that’s what the fight is actually about as far as I can see.
I, personally, suggest you use Vodpod to work around them: put the Youtube video in your Vodpod account, then use the Post to WordPress function to put the video in your blog. That will trick YouTube into thinking it’s not on WordPress.com.
Failing that, find the same video at Vimeo or something else for which we have the embedding code.
I make these suggestions because I have seen this restriction applied even to mashups and original creations, where the music company possibly has no legal rights and certainly has no moral rights.
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There’s no money dispute between WordPress.com and Google, not sure where that came from, and if there was it certainly wouldn’t last very long.
Fact is, some videos contain copyrighted material and cannot be embedded outside of YouTube.
It’s an imposition placed by the copyright holder, not WordPress.com or Google, and the video’s uploader should be happy the copyright holder took that route as opposed to the removal+lawsuit route.
Now, some embed methods can get around this restriction, and that’s more of a concern for YouTube, not us. We don’t use old embed methods here. Our shortcode and quick embed system always uses the latest and greatest embed methods from YouTube, so you don’t have to worry about your old embeds being lost (unless the video is pulled).
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@serenainthesky, why not take a screen shot of the video on Youtube, insert that into the post and link it to the video page at youtube?
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Thanks for mentioning that, TSP!
That’s exactly what I prefer to do when I run into restricted videos too.
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I would agree, except that I have successfully embeded the EXACT same videos in my off-WP.com blogs.
The money dispute is a theory of mine. If there’s another reason, I would like to know it.
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There are three levels of restriction for public videos at YouTube:
1: video can be embedded anywhere
2: video can be embedded in some blogs but not in others (and not in any WP.com blogs)
3: video cannot be embedded in blogs (it says so if you check the Embed code on YouTube). -
The money dispute is a theory of mine.
Yes, but a very reputation-damaging theory that pretty much has no base. I’d appreciate it if it wasn’t spread too far. I can kind of understand how you reached the conclusion, but I assure you it is quite far from the truth. We have a very strong and positive relationship with Google.
except that I have successfully embeded the EXACT same videos in my off-WP.com blogs. If there’s another reason, I would like to know it.
It all depends on what embed method is in use. If you’re using an older embed method, it may be getting around the restrictions. We always use the latest provided by YouTube, so the latest restrictions are always respected.
video can be embedded in some blogs but not in others (and not in any WP.com blogs)
Not entirely true. A specific WordPress.com blog can be white-listed, but WordPress.com itself is generally not allowed on these restricted videos as it would open up the video to be embedded on 18 million blogs, which is a very significant number when you’re trying to keep copyrighted content contained.
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I simply use the Embed code that YouTube provides. I’m not doing any weird coding, I assure you.
Like I said, I can embed those videos in my off-WP.com blogs but not in my WP.com blogs. That’s what the OP is talking about.
So, since those music corporations apparently restrict WP.com blogs but not others, can staff contact them or YouTube to put WP.com blogs on an even footing with independent blogs?
If there is a whitelisting process, how does one go about being approved? Do I have to contact Sony, EMI, etc myself?
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It would be good if you’d contact them too. We’ll try as well, but as mentioned above, white-listing WordPress.com would result in the ability to post their copyrighted content on 18 million blogs, which is hardly in their best interests.
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