{"id":81,"date":"2021-12-06T15:18:01","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T15:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.coventry.domains\/copyrightliteracy\/?p=81"},"modified":"2026-10-08T10:17:45","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T09:17:45","slug":"can-i-link-to-video-and-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.coventry.domains\/copyrightliteracy\/2021\/12\/06\/can-i-link-to-video-and-films\/","title":{"rendered":"Can I link to videos and films?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We can broadly assume that material hosted on organisations&#8217; official channels is&nbsp;legally available, and consequently, we can link and embed them. More care will be necessary when linking to private posts in copyright infringement.&nbsp;You must be cautious, especially where part of the footage is from blockbusters and stock collections.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Videos\u00a0freely available on the internet\u00a0may still be protected\u00a0by copyright, and you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder before copying them. Not all material marked as free to use on the Internet\u00a0is meant to be distributed\u00a0freely: material might be incorrectly\u202fannotated, such as some posted on\u00a0<strong>YouTube<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Vimeo<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.coventry.domains\/copyrightliteracy\/2021\/12\/06\/how-about-hyperlinks-and-copyright\/\">What about hyperlinks and copyright?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/wp.coventry.domains\/copyrightliteracy\/2021\/12\/06\/can-i-make-a-transcript-or-a-third-party-owned-video\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Can I make a transcript or a third party owned video?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/wp.coventry.domains\/copyrightliteracy\/2021\/12\/07\/can-i-link-to-youtube\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Can I link to YouTube?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/wp.coventry.domains\/copyrightliteracy\/2021\/12\/07\/can-i-use-ted-talks\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Can<\/strong> I <strong>use TED Talks?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/wp.coventry.domains\/copyrightliteracy\/2021\/12\/06\/can-i-show-clips-and-movies\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Can I show clips or whole movies online?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.coventry.domains\/copyrightliteracy\/2021\/12\/06\/can-i-use-broadcasts-and-movies-clips\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Can I upload broadcasts and movie clips?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:9px\"><strong>TThe author takes no responsibility for the content of this page, which is not intended as binding legal advice. The views are about copyright in the UK Higher Education sector context<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We can broadly assume that material hosted on organisations&#8217; official channels is&nbsp;legally available, and consequently, we can link and embed them. More care will be necessary when linking to private posts in copyright infringement.&nbsp;You must be cautious, especially where part of the footage is from blockbusters and stock collections.&nbsp; Videos\u00a0freely available on the internet\u00a0may still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[147],"tags":[69,7,50,13],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faq-on-copyright","tag-copyright-protection","tag-linking","tag-publishers","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.coventry.domains\/copyrightliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.coventry.domains\/copyrightliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.coventry.domains\/copyrightliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.coventry.domains\/copyrightliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.coventry.domains\/copyrightliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/wp.coventry.domains\/copyrightliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1522,"href":"https:\/\/wp.coventry.domains\/copyrightliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions\/1522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.coventry.domains\/copyrightliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.coventry.domains\/copyrightliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.coventry.domains\/copyrightliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}