Can I download and modify YouTube videos under Creative Commons license for commercial use?

[FlyingRon]

What Quincy is saying and you keep dancing around is that THERE IS MORE THAN ONE SET OF CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSE TERMS.
What createive commons does is generate a set of standard license terms based on what the author chooses. Absent knowing which ones were applied tot he video, we can't guess. Some allow commercial use, some don't. Most require attribution, some don't.

 

[quincy]

Yes and no. The Creative Commons license specifically says that anyone is allowed to copy and share the works (in this case, the video). However, YouTube does not allow video downloads. There’s no way in the UI to download a video, and the terms of use specifically forbid you from copying any content for which YouTube does not provide a UI (section 5.1).
So… Technically the copyright holder of the video has given you permission to download and share them (even edit), but YouTube restricts you to only use their web-based video editor.
If you do use an external utility to download a video, you’re not breaking copyright law, but you are breaking YouTube’s terms of use.

Licenses are not all the same. They vary in their terms.

If you license from a copyright holder a work protected under copyright laws, you need to read the terms of the license carefully. Some licenses, for example, give the license holder permission to copy a work for a personal use only. Commercial uses could be prohibited.

If you violate the terms of the license, you risk a lawsuit.

Aradralami, this thread was created in April. On this forum, this months-old thread is considered an "old" thread, to be revived for comments and questions by the original poster only.

If you have a legal question of your own, please start your own thread. Thanks.