If I sign a contract to hand over the rights to a video, I no longer have the rights to the video. Video content works the same way, since it’s still content. To then claim I wrote it would be a violation of the agreement or contract I signed to produce the content. If I ghost-wrote a book and then put that book on my personal website as a portfolio piece, it would raise some eyebrows, right? I got paid to write it, but my name isn’t credited as an author. The only case I can think of where this could possibly happen is if you’re a content creator with video skills and people hire you to create their videos, similar to how ghostwriters are paid to write blog content, ebooks and the like, and don’t have their names attached. If that other user decides they don’t want to let other people access that content, you embedding it could be a copyright violation.
The only conceivable exception would be is if you created the content and then sold it, copyright and all, to someone else. You own it! There can’t possibly be a reason why it would be illegal for you to embed it. The first scenario is going to eliminate some discussion from the rest of this post, so I’m covering it now so I don’t need a caveat in every other section.īasically, if you own the content and you’re the one who uploaded the video, it is 100% legal to embed the video on your website.