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Posted by Colin B on 12/05/06 09:04
"PTravel" <ptravel@travelersvideo.com> wrote in message
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> "Colin B" <Colin B@cb.org> wrote in message
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>> Now that it's easy to put your digital photographs and movies on to a
>> video sharing site, such as "youtube", the question of whether copyright
>> infringements really harm the copyright holders is now a hot topic. See,
>> for example, the article titled:
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>> Youtube copyright infringements are not all bad for the copyright
>> holders?
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>> http://fredhere.blogspot.com/
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>> What do you think of the arguments in this blog? Should copyright holders
>> take a broad view and tolerate copyright infringements on youtube as is
>> suggested in this blog?
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>> See also the youtube site: http://www.youtube.com/
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> Copyright is an exclusive right, meaning the reserved rights are owned,
> entirely, by the copyright owner. It doesn't matter whether infringements
> are "not all bad" or not -- copyright is, by definition, a right to
> exclude. Your argument is pointless as it would mean, among other things,
> amending the Constitution and ignoring several hundred years of
> intellectual property jurisprudence.
Nevertheless, in practice, it seems that copyright holders are taking a
broad view because there are a HUGE number of what must surely be illegal
copies of video clips from DVDs, TV shows etc. on youtube. Youtube seems to
place the responsibility on the people uploading the videos to truthfully
declare that permission has been obtained from the legal copyright holders.
Although the copyright holders must know that their legal rights are
constantly being infringed on this site, a lot of them seem to choose to do
nothing about it. This may indicate that they are not really concerned about
low quality video extracts from their work appearing on youtube because of
the advertising value of these clips to the millions of people who visit
this site. Why else could such huge numbers of "illegal" video clips not be
deleted from youtube? Unless of course, people genuinely have received
permission from the copyright holders to upload limited extracts from their
work on to youtube.
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