Q:“Does Magnify copy videos from other sites?”Q:“Who owns the videos that are shown on Magnify sites?”Sharing Video
Magnify is built on the philosophy that people who create videos do so in order to share their stories with other people -- but we understand that different creators approach the process of sharing in different ways.
Some video creators want to be paid for their work, such as those who sell videos through Google, while others give their videos away for free, like those who post to YouTube. Likewise, some video creators strictly control uses of their video, while others allow people to copy or modify it. (And these distinctions are still being refined -- for example, Revver videos may be copied freely but the creators still get paid.)
Magnify embraces all of these distribution mechanisms, and looks forward to the others that will surely evolve in the years ahead.
Linking and Embedding
Magnify provides links to or embedded players for content which is hosted on multiple third-party web sites. Web browsers then display these independently-hosted videos in the context of Magnify web pages.
Magnify does not copy, host, or serve those embedded videos, which are delivered by third parties under their own terms and licenses. This kind of interlinking is part of the viral explosion of video on the Internet.
At the same time, it's possible that in this emerging space some people will be confused, or decide that they don't want their material shared as broadly as they at first agreed to, so if someone contacts us asking us to not link to or embed a particular video, we're inclined to comply.
