Posted by Bob Ford on 12/08/06 19:12

On Fri, 8 Dec 2006 10:28:26 -0800, Christopher Campbell
<christophercampbell@hotmail.com> wrote:

>On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 01:13:05 -0800, Colin B wrote
>(in article <4573e69e$1@clear.net.nz>):
>
>> 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:
>>
>> Youtube copyright infringements are not all bad for the copyright holders?
>>
>> http://fredhere.blogspot.com/
>>
>> 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?
>>
>> See also the youtube site: http://www.youtube.com/
>
>I might find all kinds of arguments about why I am entitled to use your car,
>or even why it might be a benefit to you for me to use your car. But I
>suspect that if I took your car without asking you or paying for it, you
>could still have me arrested. Sure, I might claim "fair use" by only using
>the car for a little while and while you were not using it but, selfish and
>unreasonable person that you are, you probably would think I was simply
>stealing your car. No matter how beneficial to you it might be for me to
>steal your car, you probably would insist that the decision be left up to
>you, not to me.
>
>It is disingenuous to steal intellectual property and then rationalize it by
>insisting it was a benefit to the property owner. The fact remains: you took
>something that belonged to somebody else and used it for your own benefit
>without the owner's permission. All the rationalization in the world does not
>change that fact. Some property owners might allow the use of their property
>on YouTube. Others might not value the so-called 'benefits' as greatly. Their
>circumstances or the nature of their property might be different. The
>decision should be theirs, not left to a bunch of covetous juveniles on
>YouTube whose only interest is getting something for nothing.
>
>It should be up to the owners of intellectual property to decide who gets to
>use that property and under what conditions. Thieves should not be the ones
>who make up the rules about using intellectual property.

Well stated Christopher.
Bob Ford
Images In Motion
www.imagesinmotion.com

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