I recently created a course of Easy German’s Super Easy German Playlist and it’s been rejected. I have original URLs for all the lessons, audio files, timestamps, course / lesson images, tags. I don’t think I’m missing anything so I don’t know why they were rejected.
I’m no expert in this, but have you tried the support chat that pops up when you go to import something on desktop?
They have a little window in the bottom right you can chat if you have problems importing stuff.
Were you trying to make it public? If so, the likely reason is copyright. You should be able to use it personally though by uploading as private.
Hi @William_T94, did you get the permission from the content creators of Easy German? If so, please note this information in the course and in every lesson description, with the date of when you got the permission from Easy German. If not, there is a law called “Urheberrecht” in Germany, which states that you are not allowed to publish creative work of others for 70 years after the first publishing. That’s the reason your course got rejected or was put on private. Earlier requests to the “Easy languages” teams were quite clear. For Easy Catalan we got the permission to publish just the frist three episodes.
The same law is valid for every book and also YouTube videos. If the video description says Creative Commons Attribution license then you are allowed to share the material here. Everything else has to be put on „extern" or "private.
Similar rules are valid for other international content. LingQ users should be aware of copyright rules.
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Hi Fer.weh, I understand copyright issues. Where do I mark something I want to upload as private?
I am learning Greek and have been a paying reader Easy Greek for 3 years now. I would like to upload (some of) their Easy Greek Podcasts in LingQ. I tried and the message I got after uploading one is something like "paid subscribers can listen/read. I intend to contact the Greek Easy Greeker, Dimitri. Any chance you think I can use it for myself (if it is possible to put it on “private”, use only by me)? Thanks for any thoughts in advance Marij
Default is private. You don’t need to do anything special. You can use the material for your private use. You just can’t share publicly as it is someone else’s content (not yours)
Well, others have already said a few things.
However, regarding Easy German, that are usually very friendly, we can read some further info in their website. I attach a screenshot below.
I think LingQ, and the creation of a series, would apply as language course.
According to the screenshot (their FAQ), which is super open and generic, I don’t see any problem to use them here. Imho.
If in doubt, you can ask to them directly, but the screenshot is quite clear, the FAQ are linked below.
Hi @MarijV, as ericb100 said, everything you upload is a private lesson in the beginning. These are the lessons that only you can see. So you can upload your own lesson material from university, your emails or a smutty novel 
and read them through LingQ. You don’t even need audio when you leave the lesson on private.
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if you’d like to […] re-upload one of our videos to another platform […] please get in touch for licensing information.
That is why I stopped using (and being a member of Esay Greek) because they did not mind Patron members sharing creative work of others. it just hapened once that I was aware of and when I made a comment against that, the only answer was … well it is not in our lists of “what to do-- and what not to do”. I don’t know if they have changed the list but for me at that time, it was a meagre and disappointing answer. I do love their videos and podcasts and use them privately. But I share a lot of other youtuber language videos that are available without any restrictions and have subtitles. I think that in doing so in some way I make their work more widely known. And some are really worth knowing.
yeah, but it’s not reuploading videos in LingQ, you link to the existing Youtube video.
I never created courses btw, so I might be wrong.
But it’s NOT uploading in another platform. We don’t upload videos, but the transcripts and the videos are attached embedded or linked. So if you watch the embedded video, the ads go to them, and if there is the option for the videos to be embedded, it means they gave that option.
Now, if you extract the audio and upload it, I’m uncertain, because technically is not specified, and the transcript is certainly AI generated, so the quality is not 100%. If you instead copy/paste their own self-made transcript, it might be different, but again, it’s not intentionally specified in their own FAQ.