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YouTube bans clips over 10 minutes

Posted in AV by Derek at 3:00 pm

YouTube is now enforcing a 10 minutes or less cutoff for clips uploaded to their servers.

So, if most of our users are uploading and watching short form video clips, why even bother to make the change? If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it right? Well, if you’ve followed our blog postings or any of the press articles, you know we’re constantly trying to balance the rights of copyright owners with the rights of our users. We did some analysis of the videos in our system over 10 minutes in length, and we found the overwhelming majority of them were full length, copyrighted videos from tv shows and movies. However, we also recognize that there are legit content creators out there who may have videos over 10 mins, so we’ve created a Premium Content Program for those of you with professional-produced videos.

Have any of our readers used YouTube for uploading clips longer than 10 minutes to YouTube servers?

7 Responses to “YouTube bans clips over 10 minutes”

  1. Mitko says:

    well i still can download music video clips and thats importance, but it sucks they made limit if they made one limit they will make another and another and it never ends!

  2. Will says:

    well yeah I have. me and my friends made a 15min short movie and now it’s gonna be gone. but at least, there are still some sites that host it like Google Videos and IFilm.

  3. Derek says:

    oh the statement explained that if the video content exceeds the 10 min limit and there is no copyright protection (meaning that it is indeed yours), then youtube will continue hosting.

  4. Joe Anderson says:

    I’ve watched dozens of full TV episodes on that site. I’m a member of CraftyTV, which I blogged about, which streams shows due to a legal loophole.

  5. alex says:

    hi nice site.

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