Is it permissible to re-film video content I watched on another channel using my own camera, meaning to take the idea and re-enact it, knowing that the content is permissible according to Sharia? And if that is not permissible, is it permissible if it is permissible according to Google, the owner of YouTube?
Intellectual property rights, such as copyrights, are protected and owned by their proprietors, and it is not permissible to infringe upon them. However, benefiting from program ideas without exact imitation is permissible in principle and does not constitute an infringement of copyright.
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