YouSue

As I watched the Colbery Report last week he had a very interesting guest on his show. It was a man who worked for youtube and had edited clips of the Colbert Report in mocking fashion and placed them on youtube. The parent company of Comedy Central, Viacom, then told the man to take the videos down. Now the same man is suing Viacom for infringing rights of free speech in return to their allegations of breaking copyright laws. This is really something that is stirring around youtube. The IRAA is cracking down on youtube and is threatening lawsuits on people who make their own music videos or videos containing music.

This has a major impact on our classroom in direct regard to Imovies. I think the guy who filed a suit against Viacom is in a way right and wrong. Colbert came right out and stated that Viacom did indeed own him. However, I feel that when Cd burners and other such technology came out that the major worry was self profit. I don't believe there should be any penalties for using information if you are not making money off it. You're just giving the person/people/artist at hand more exposure.