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We accidentally solved robotics by watching 1M hours of YouTube

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209 points alexcos | 1 comments | 29 Jun 25 16:08 UTC | HN request time: 0.265s | source
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okdood64 ◴[29 Jun 25 16:22 UTC] No.44414264[source]▶
Does YouTube allow massive scraping like this in their ToS?
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1. perching_aix ◴[29 Jun 25 16:44 UTC] No.44414427[source]▶
My "lawyer" (gpt4o) claims that since YouTube is merely a non-exclusive licensee of the user content upload to their service, even if they have such restrictions in their ToS (they do), they likely would not hold up in court, citing [0]. Something about that non-exclusivity meaning they cannot constrain the copyright further on their own terms. Which I guess makes sense?

And since scraping of publicly available data is not illegal (in the US, according to the aforementioned "lawyer"), it seems like it's okay?

Not legal advice.

[0] https://www.skadden.com/insights/publications/2024/05/distri...