It's like anything else - go too far one way? No one owns anything and it is a free-for-all (laizzez faire economy), go too far the other way (creativity is stymied and you can't move.)
Since the advent of the internet - copyright law has been even more in flux than usual. The pendlum keeps swinging back and forth. And the law suits seem almost like random hits depending on how much the owner cares about the issue and the degree to which they are willing to spend time and money fighting it. Also the degree to which they think they have a case. Making the field somewhat unpredictable.
The Let's Go Crazy YouTube deletion is surprising - since my sisinlaw posted a similar video of my neice singing Sabateoge on YouTube and to my knowledge was okay. Curious to know the whole story on that one. Often there's more going on behind the scenes than we are told. SpoilerSlayer has had troubles for quite a while = but he is doing something that a lot of people in the industry take issue with - distributing spoilers and copyright owned information. He used to provide links to full tv scripts back in the day - that were on a German site that fell beneath the radar and because it was German got away with distributing US owned property for free.
Copyright Law in of itself isn't evil. It's the extremes that a couple of people like to take it too that is. Extremists - ACK! They make life impossible for the rest of us. ;-)
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Date: 2007-08-20 01:21 pm (UTC)Since the advent of the internet - copyright law has been even more in flux than usual. The pendlum keeps swinging back and forth. And the law suits seem almost like random hits depending on how much the owner cares about the issue and the degree to which they are willing to spend time and money fighting it. Also the degree to which they think they have a case.
Making the field somewhat unpredictable.
The Let's Go Crazy YouTube deletion is surprising - since my sisinlaw posted a similar video of my neice singing Sabateoge on YouTube and to my knowledge was okay. Curious to know the whole story on that one. Often there's more going on behind the scenes than we are told. SpoilerSlayer has had troubles for quite a while = but he is doing something that a lot of people in the industry take issue with - distributing spoilers and copyright owned information. He used to provide links to full tv scripts back in the day - that were on a German site that fell beneath the radar and because it was German got away with distributing US owned property for free.
Copyright Law in of itself isn't evil. It's the extremes that a couple of people like to take it too that is. Extremists - ACK! They make life impossible for the rest of us. ;-)