Why are my shared lessons now requiring approval?

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I have been sharing lessons for years on LingQ especially on news on Russia and Ukraine. Most of my lessons are auto-translated 3-4 min youtube videos from DW in Russian.

I would say that 100% of lessons I share I complete them myself and 98% of these videos the translation is basically perfect.

Does someone know what is going on?

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The approval is taking place in order to avoid copyright infringement. It’s been like this for quiet a while now.

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Thanks for the response! Do you know what are the criteria for approval/denial?

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As written, it’s depending on whether or not there could be any copyright issues. If the material isn’t protected, it can be made public. In case of public available DW videos (I assume DW stands for Deutsche Welle) there shouldn’t be any issues. But depending on how many people currently tried to make lessons public it may take a little while.

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As Obsttorte said, the two main criteria are:

  1. Lesson quality: I.e. matching text and audio, proper formatting, etc.
  2. Copyright issues. For DW content, this isn’t a major issue.

We review pending lessons on a weekly basis. If you consistently share lessons and would like to bypass the approval process, you can ask to be a Librarian by clicking the button on the Contribute page: Login - LingQ

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