Youtube videos are littered with copyrighted material that the content creator has manipulated/edited into a new format. Can we/should we reference these videos? Is copyright becoming less of an issue because of the fluid nature of content on the internet? Clearly the music industry is still battling the peer to peer applications, although most of it has not been terribly successful. Music sharing is not a new thing. Back in the day kids used to copy cassettes from each other. With the advent of the internet and peer to peer applications you can now share files with another person in Mongolia in mere minutes.
So some of the questions I would like you to think about are:
- Where does copyright begin and end in the web 2.0 era?
- Have the rules changed with the advent web applications like blogs, Wikipedia, Facebook, Youtube etc?
- Are the rules different for learning programs vs. blogs?
- Is there a difference between music rights and copyright on images/video?
- Can copyright be an enforced with the advent of the internet, does this matter?
2 comments:
Quintus,
Although the legal context hasn't really changed with the development of the Internet, I think the "unwritten" rules have changed.
I mean that when an author post something original on the net, he must now, in some ways, accept that his work might be used by others. This does not deprive him of his intellectual property but by making something easily available to copy, he must assume that is is likely to be copied.
This is why alternate copyright "contract" such as Creative Commons" have appeared in the last few years, because although the authors want to keep credit for their work and protect it from abusive used, they must understand that nowadays we cant really prevent reused of internet material.
I think this all makes the difference between intellectual and physical properties more and more evident.
Excellent comment Guy, thanks for the feedback. I agree with you that the rules have changed in an informal way due to the amount of content that is being copied by content developers using Web 2.0 tools. Do you think that most corporate organizations would use content sources such as Youtube videos that contain copyrighted material in training programs? What about using images that you get from a website? Should there be any concern in this regard? I know that the law hasn't changed, but I am wondering out loud how much the corporate perception has changed and how this will influence content development/acquisition in the future.
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