Dreams

Being video files have a slightly modified set of fair use rules.  Fair Use allows for the limited reuse of copyrighted material so long as it is not done for financial gain of the person reusing the work, nor does it financially harm the original author by denying them sales etc.

In the case of Dream animated wallpapers, users can make limited use of video files created by other authors provided they meet the following requirements:

• The animations used in the .Dream file is either 15 seconds in length of shorter OR less than 25% of the original video file in length (whichever is shorter).  So if you found a 20 second video you want to use in a Dream, you can use no more than 5 seconds of that video.  Anything else, you are limited to 15 seconds.
• You must provide credit to the original author in the skin comments AND provide a link to your original source.  Understand that if the original owner of the work asks us to take it down, provided proof of ownership, we will comply immediately.

Try reading this slowly inorder to digest it.

I have read that, many times now, but it still doesn't answer my questions. I, myself, made the videos, they were not taken from anywhere else. If it's the content that is in dispute then I could contact Valve for permission. Would that clear up the matter?

Thank you, I will send an email asking their permission then. I'm sorry I was such a hassle to all of you.

If that's the case then all we'd need is for the poster to link to the part of their TOS that states that. The burden is on the person submitting the file to show that he/she has permission to do so. We can not scour the net for references to each upload that does not meet the criteria specified in the upload guidelines. There's just not that many hours in the day.