Are amateur videos copyrighted?
 

I'm wondering if I can use amateur content from let's say xtube or xhamster on my own tube site? Is it against DMCA rule?
I'm mainly thinking about cam videos.

All "original work of art" is automatically copyrighted.

It's just a question if the level of originallity reaches high enough to deserve the protection of the law. A recording would, in most cases, more or less automatically qualify since it is about that unique, original person/character that is in the movie clip.

So no, you are not allowed to just take them.

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what will you do?? :1orglaugh

QFT :2 cents::2 cents:

From those sites you can just grab the embed code and put them on your site that way.

Uhm...not a good idea...everything is copywritten, and you'd be stealing, unless you licensed it, or shot it yourself.
Plus, most cam videos, are copyright the COMPANY, not the model (MFC, Streammate, etc), which would be even worse trouble for you... :2 cents:

you can try, but as you just admitted you were going to use them rather than they being 'user uploaded' you just lost the only legal way you could get away with it.

Can I walk in the store and just take shit? WTF