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I know that technically it is legal to use video clips as long as it's for education purposes. However, from the perspective of the video owner, I think using a video without the consent of the owner is a breach of copyright. On the other hand, with today's technology, so much of our lives and information is public and accessible. So can we really blame people for using information that has no restrictions from obtaining it? I think I come down on the side that as long as you give credit to the video owner, it should be legal for certain purposes, such as education.
Personally, I think it is a shame that our world is becoming so public that nobody really knows anymore who creates works such as videos. I agree wholeheartedly that someone who wants to use a video should have to give credit to the owner of the video and I also don't think that sites like the one in the article should be able to make money off of other people's works.
According to the relevant law, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998, "Contracting Parties shall provide adequate legal protection and effective legal remedies against the circumvention of effective technological measures that are used by authors". Based on this statement, embedding video without the permission of its owner, is wrong.
I agree with Kurt that it's a shame that due credit is not always given in these situations. However I do think people should be able to embed videos if they credit whoever originally posted the video. Today people have access to everyone's videos and pictures, so these situations are inevitable.
I agree to an extent of what Gunter is saying. I agree that the company should not be entitled to "hunting down" videos that are violating some kind of copy right. And that's because the website is supposed to be a website that hosts uploaded videos and doesn't claim the videos as their own. But I do think that some kind of punishment should be taken towards the accounts that constantly upload infringed material.
The thing is, bookmarking a video and having a site save it is quite different from hosting an infringing video. I believe it is the responsibility of the site being embedded, and not the embedder, to remove the infringing content.
It seems a bit silly to really crack down on things like posted or embedded videos. If the one posting the video is clearly looking to make profit off something that he has done that's obviously stealing. But the amount of free advertising that these main media conglomerates gain from people posting songs and video clips really could equate to the amount they could potentially lose from piracy.
This question is too broad to be answered with a single answer. In this case, the reporting and removal of videos seems like it's not enough, and banning of repeat offenders should be what Gunter is doing to stay on the right side of copyright law.
In other cases, it might not be illegal to embed a video. If Disney uploads five minutes of Fox and the Hound, it's not illegal, Disney owns the copyright. If Disney allows that video to be embedded (you can choose on YouTube if you want a video to be embeddable or not) then it's perfectly legal to embed it anywhere.
If it's for educational purposes, it's generally legal to upload anything, as long as it's used ONLY for education.
And parody, is of course, legal. Weird Al's career is built on being able to use the music of songs and write new lyrics, but no one would ever mistake his voice for Michael Jackson's. I doubt very many people have confused Weird Al's The Rye or the Kaiser, a song about a Jewish deli, for Survivor's The Eye of the Tiger, perennial fight song and the theme of Rocky III.
I know that technically it is legal to use video clips as long as it's for education purposes. However, from the perspective of the video owner, I think using a video without the consent of the owner is a breach of copyright. On the other hand, with today's technology, so much of our lives and information is public and accessible. So can we really blame people for using information that has no restrictions from obtaining it? I think I come down on the side that as long as you give credit to the video owner, it should be legal for certain purposes, such as education.
ReplyDeletePersonally, I think it is a shame that our world is becoming so public that nobody really knows anymore who creates works such as videos. I agree wholeheartedly that someone who wants to use a video should have to give credit to the owner of the video and I also don't think that sites like the one in the article should be able to make money off of other people's works.
ReplyDeleteAccording to the relevant law, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998, "Contracting Parties shall provide adequate legal protection
ReplyDeleteand effective legal remedies against the circumvention
of effective technological measures that are used
by authors". Based on this statement, embedding video without the permission of its owner, is wrong.
I agree with Kurt that it's a shame that due credit is not always given in these situations. However I do think people should be able to embed videos if they credit whoever originally posted the video. Today people have access to everyone's videos and pictures, so these situations are inevitable.
ReplyDeleteI agree to an extent of what Gunter is saying. I agree that the company should not be entitled to "hunting down" videos that are violating some kind of copy right. And that's because the website is supposed to be a website that hosts uploaded videos and doesn't claim the videos as their own. But I do think that some kind of punishment should be taken towards the accounts that constantly upload infringed material.
ReplyDeleteThe thing is, bookmarking a video and having a site save it is quite different from hosting an infringing video. I believe it is the responsibility of the site being embedded, and not the embedder, to remove the infringing content.
ReplyDeleteIt seems a bit silly to really crack down on things like posted or embedded videos. If the one posting the video is clearly looking to make profit off something that he has done that's obviously stealing. But the amount of free advertising that these main media conglomerates gain from people posting songs and video clips really could equate to the amount they could potentially lose from piracy.
ReplyDeleteThis question is too broad to be answered with a single answer. In this case, the reporting and removal of videos seems like it's not enough, and banning of repeat offenders should be what Gunter is doing to stay on the right side of copyright law.
ReplyDeleteIn other cases, it might not be illegal to embed a video. If Disney uploads five minutes of Fox and the Hound, it's not illegal, Disney owns the copyright. If Disney allows that video to be embedded (you can choose on YouTube if you want a video to be embeddable or not) then it's perfectly legal to embed it anywhere.
If it's for educational purposes, it's generally legal to upload anything, as long as it's used ONLY for education.
And parody, is of course, legal. Weird Al's career is built on being able to use the music of songs and write new lyrics, but no one would ever mistake his voice for Michael Jackson's. I doubt very many people have confused Weird Al's The Rye or the Kaiser, a song about a Jewish deli, for Survivor's The Eye of the Tiger, perennial fight song and the theme of Rocky III.