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This reminds me of the "No copyright intended" quote people would put on YouTube videos.

That phenomenon is actual quite interesting. It shows that lots of people have one view of what is right & wrong, and think that copyright is what they think is right. People think there is nothing wrong with uploading a video of them dancing in a funny way to a popular song if you don't claim the song is yours and youre not making money off it. Thus they think its not against copyright to do that.

The law has a different interpretation.

The fact that lots of people have a different interpretation of what counts as unethical use might mean the law will change

"The fact that lots of people have a different interpretation of what counts as unethical use might mean the law will change" -- we can dream, can't we?

But, you're right, in a perfect world, ethics and law would correspond. But, not in this world.

Every youtube video I saw with that notice was still online!

Survivor bias.

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