Board Thread:Questions and answers/@comment-4088756-20171030060811/@comment-27306930-20171031000023

I'm not a lawyer, but I play one on the Internet  😁   As I recall from the terms of service, Youtube  technically   owns the rights to the video content and the associated thumbnail previews once you've uploaded them. Youtube then allows third parties to post links and embed URLs to publicly accessible content on their site. So effectively it's like putting the video into the public domain.

Again, according to the terms of use, third parties may not misrepresent video content, whether they are the author or not. So technically we should be using that thumbnail, or one very similar to it, when referencing his video because it's an accurate representation of the content. And since ZombieHunter made no allusions that he was the author, I think he did everything correctly.

The defense rests.