Hi, Karla —

I don't think there is explicit direction from the Church on this specific point.

I would argue, which music videos are pirated and which are not, is too much for an individual to police.

The provenance of the videos:

• may be genuine, or
• the publisher may intend the videos to be distributed to promote the music.

The copyright owners have recourse to taking illicit videos down if they really want to.

As long as you don't know for sure that the content is illegitimate, and you're not the one doing the pirating, I think this would be OK.

If you like a song enough to favorite it and listen to it over and over though, my opinion is it would be good to go ahead and buy it sooner rather than later, before you forget.

It's a small sum and only fair to the content owners.

Eric