Is it permissible to publish recitations by well-known reciters from their private channels or television channels without their permission, knowing that it is impossible to contact them, and is there a sin incurred by doing so if the rights are reserved or violated without the publisher's knowledge?
Intellectual and moral rights, such as innovation and authorship rights, are owned by their proprietors and may not be infringed upon. However, there is no objection to publishing materials for which it is not known or not highly probable that their rights are reserved. If videos originally had rights and the indication of those rights was removed, and it is not highly probable that their rights are reserved, then there is no harm in broadcasting them, and the sin falls upon whoever infringed upon them. Merely uploading videos of scholars' lessons and Qur'anic recitations to YouTube does not grant the channel owner ownership of the material, as the intellectual rights in such cases belong to the scholars or reciters.
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