winstonwolfe and zarjaz? This is my understanding of the law, but don't hold me to it, because I'm still in the learning process on this topic myself. If you embed a YouTube video into your Steemit article (post) that belongs to someone else, then you are not violating any copyright law inasmuch as you are sending business in that YouTuber's direction. Moreover, if the website where you are embedding a YouTube video belonging to someone else into an article that you are publishing has some kind of agreement with YouTube, then I presume that you are safe to embed any YouTube video you wish in your articles. However, if you DOWNLOAD a YouTube video on your own website and claim it as your own, then you are in clear violation of the copyright laws.