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In order to use someone elses content under fair use you have to make "meaningful commentary" so they do the bare minimum in order to use other people's videos.
Fair use commentary generally requires as little of the actual original work to be used as possible. Summary may be ok, clips/recordings are ok, but they must be minimal. That commentary must also be substantive.
Reproducing a work in full (thus obviously limiting the commercial viability of the original work - another factor considered) with light commentary over the top probably wouldn't hold up in court. The commentary just avoids automatic systems in the increasingly poorly moderated internet.
The technicality is, it's not a replay of somebodies content with changes, it's "Hey look at me reacting to another's content"
This is the correct answer here! People copyright strike reposted videos all the time, but turning it into commentary makes it a new artwork so it wonβt get removed. They also often insert the commentary over the sections of video that include copyrighted music.
Dang, that's crazy. Join me next week to see me react to another crazy video!
I had very recently come across a reactionary content left-wing YouTube channel, reacting to Rachel Maddow of MSNBC reacting to Elon Musk's interview... I thought that was pretty bizarre. (link).
It was a 30 second intro segment, then a 8 minute clip of the Maddow show, followed by a 1 minute outro commentary segment.