Reposting part of a youtube video

Question

Let's say someone has a 1 hour video on YouTube then another person takes a small part of this video (60 seconds) and reposts it on YouTube shorts.

Is that copyright infringement?

Answer 1

Not nearly enough information. It depends on what you're copying and what you're doing with it, not just the length of what you're copying (although copying a small portion of a larger whole does work in your favor). It is entirely possible that using 60 seconds of a 1-hour video could be fair use, and also possible that it's infringement. It would probably be infringement to just repost a collection of clips as you found them with no transformative, review, or commentary element, for example, but it might be acceptable to use a clip for educational or review purposes. It's impossible to determine whether or not it's infringement from only the fact that it's 1 minute of a 60-minute video.