{"id":130946,"date":"2026-04-08T08:00:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T12:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/?p=130946"},"modified":"2026-04-08T08:12:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T12:12:47","slug":"april-30-change-to-google-meet-video-recordings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/april-30-change-to-google-meet-video-recordings\/","title":{"rendered":"April 30 &#8211; Change to Google Meet Video Recordings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Currently,\u00a0<strong>Google Meet<\/strong>\u00a0video recordings do not allow viewers to download or copy them by default unless the recording owner explicitly allows it.<\/p>\n<p>Starting\u00a0<strong>April 30, 2026<\/strong>, Google will change this default for future recordings. Moving forward, recording owners will need to manually restrict this setting for individual recordings if you do not want viewers to be able to download or copy them. Any existing recordings will not be affected.<\/p>\n<p>See the <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/docs\/answer\/2494893\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/support.google.com\/docs\/answer\/2494893&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1775698702534000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2gxhd3dxN6Xv07ZcXsFvKK\">Stop, limit, or change sharing<\/a> Google Docs Editors Help article for more information.<\/p>\n<p>OWU Sponsoring Organization\/Office: Information Services<br \/>\nContact: David Soliday at <a href=\"mailto:helpdesk@owu.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">helpdesk@owu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Currently,\u00a0Google Meet\u00a0video recordings do not allow viewers to download or copy them by default unless the recording owner explicitly allows it. Starting\u00a0April 30, 2026, Google will change this default for future recordings. Moving forward, recording owners will need to manually restrict this setting for individual recordings if you do not want viewers to be able [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campuswide-news-events"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130946"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130967,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130946\/revisions\/130967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}