Terms of Service & Copyright Guidelines

1. Description of Services & Operational Purpose

YouTube Transkript is an independent digital tool created to facilitate accessibility, linguistic research, study, and educational reference. Our system allows users to:

• Render publicly accessible closed captions (CC) published by video creators or generated through YouTube's automated systems.
• Search across transcript lines and jump directly to relevant video timestamps.
• Export formatted transcript files in standard digital formats (Plain Text .txt, SubRip Subtitles .srt, Markdown .md) or copy text directly to the system clipboard.

All operations are executed ephemerally and in-memory. We do not store, host, re-stream, or redistribute video or audio files.

3. Intellectual Property Rights & Fair Use Doctrine

All intellectual property rights, copyrights, and ownership in and to YouTube videos, audio tracks, spoken words, and subtitle texts belong exclusively to the original content creators, copyright holders, and legitimate publishers.

• YouTube Transkript claims zero proprietary interest, copyright, or ownership in the captions retrieved through the platform.
• Users are authorized to utilize transcripts solely for lawful purposes, such as academic citation, commentary, journalism, personal study, linguistic analysis, and accessibility aids under the Fair Use doctrine (17 U.S.C. § 107) and international statutory quotation rights.
• You are solely responsible for ensuring that your reproduction, dissemination, or utilization of extracted text complies with applicable copyright and intellectual property laws in your jurisdiction.
• Reselling, mass redistributing, or commercial broadcasting of copyrighted transcripts without licensing from the respective rights holder is strictly prohibited.

5. Acceptable Use Policy (Prohibited Conduct)

When using YouTube Transkript, you agree to comply with all applicable local, national, and international laws and regulations. You specifically agree not to:

• Engage in automated bulk harvesting, crawling, or distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) requests that overload or impair site performance.
• Circumvent or attempt to circumvent rate limits, security tokens, CAPTCHA mechanisms, or access controls.
• Introduce malicious software, trojans, worms, or scripts designed to corrupt, compromise, or monitor web operations.
• Utilize the website to facilitate harassment, hate speech, defamation, fraudulent schemes, or intellectual property piracy.

We reserve the right to restrict or terminate access to any user or automated script violating this Acceptable Use Policy.

6. Third-Party Advertising & Google AdSense

This website incorporates third-party advertising, including advertisements served by Google AdSense and its programmatic advertising partners.

We do not endorse, guarantee, or assume liability for the accuracy, reliability, or safety of any goods, services, or claims displayed in third-party advertisements. Clicking on advertising banners or external links redirects you to third-party domains governed by their own independent terms of service and privacy disclosures. For details regarding advertising cookies, consult our Privacy Policy.

7. Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) Accuracy Disclaimer

Many video transcripts provided by YouTube are produced using Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) machine learning algorithms. Such transcripts may contain phonological errors, misheard terminology, omitted punctuation, or contextual inaccuracies. YouTube Transkript acts purely as a viewer and formatting bridge; we make no representations or warranties regarding the linguistic or substantive fidelity of machine-generated subtitles.

8. Disclaimer of Warranties ("AS IS" & "AS AVAILABLE")

The services, utilities, and content on YouTube Transkript are provided on an "AS IS" and "AS AVAILABLE" basis, without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, or statutory.

• We do not warrant that all YouTube videos will have available captions (e.g. if disabled by creator or if the video is restricted/private).
• We make no warranty that our services will operate continuously, securely, or free from operational defects, latency, or server downtimes.
• To the maximum extent permitted under applicable law, we expressly disclaim all implied warranties, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.

9. Limitation of Liability

In no event shall the operators, owners, contributors, or service providers of YouTube Transkript be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages (including, without limitation, loss of business profits, loss of data, or operational disruptions) arising out of or related to your use of or inability to use the platform, even if advised of the possibility of such damages.

10. Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless the operators of YouTube Transkript from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, judgments, awards, losses, costs, or expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or resulting from your breach of these Terms, infringement of third-party copyrights, or misuse of the services.

11. Governing Law, Jurisdiction & Severability

These Terms of Service and any disputes arising out of or relating to them shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany, without giving effect to conflict of law principles or the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG).

If any provision of these Terms is found to be unlawful, void, or for any reason unenforceable, that provision shall be deemed severable and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions.

12. Legal Inquiries & Official Communications

For legal inquiries, copyright claims, licensing discussions, or formal communications, please contact our legal counsel:

• Legal Department: [email protected]
• DMCA Agent: [email protected]
• Customer Support: [email protected]
• Online Contact: Contact Page