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Ben Sinclair

You can claim whatever you like about copyright, but YouTube's terms and conditions include the following:

The following restrictions apply to your use of the Service. You are not allowed to:

access, reproduce, download, distribute, transmit, broadcast, display, sell, license, alter, modify or otherwise use any part of the Service or any Content except: (a) as specifically permitted by the Service; (b) with prior written permission from YouTube and, if applicable, the respective rights holders; or (c) as permitted by applicable law;

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access the Service using any automated means (such as robots, botnets or scrapers) except: (a) in the case of public search engines, in accordance with YouTube’s robots.txt file; (b) with YouTube’s prior written permission; or (c) as permitted by applicable law;

Emphasis mine. Other services used by youtube-dl will have different terms, of course, but it's not named after them.

I use youtube-dl myself for some purposes but what you're claiming is similar to when people post music videos and disclaim them with "no copyright infringement intended" in the description, and it won't stand a legal test.

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Dhruv Panchal

Then what needs to be changed in this ?? Can you explain a little bit about that ??

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Ben Sinclair

I think either missing out the bit about copyright (which you've done now) and leaving it to stand on its own, or reinforcing the point that the use of such a program may or may not be legal depending on your jurisdiction, purpose and the terms of the particular website you're scraping.

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Dhruv Panchal

So now it is good to go right ??