Blog 53

One of the well-known websites is YouTube. It allows people to broadcast their own videos and images and musical stuff. Some people upload videos such as movies, TV shows or anything that has a copyright without the permission of the owner. YouTube has been censured repeatedly for failing to monitor its online contents and to adhere to copyright laws. Copyright is a law to protect someone’s project, media work, writing or photographs. Nowadays with media and internet which gives free space to upload videos and music, people abuse copyrights of these media, whether they know it or not. However, some information in which material is considered to be public domain are thrown to public which are not owned or restricted by anyone. Therefore, any person can use it without mentioning the source anytime. On the other hand, people should be acknowledging the difference between the materials that are considered as a public domain and the materials should be cited because in each country has their own Public Domain, which is not the same in other countries. People opinions vary between one to another. Some think that all the materials online should be copyrighted even if it’s a public domain in YouTube. Most of the owners of the original videos ask for their rights from Google which owns the YouTube website. In YouTube’s defense, it is nearly impossible to monitor all of their members and to check all of the copyrighted materials. With this in mind, it has been a long time since Google bought YouTube, and yet they still haven’t come up with a solution to protect copyrighted. According to YouTube, it backs the people who want to save their copyrighted materials. Because of this, YouTube has promised the owners of the copyrighted material that they will try to invent a new tool that will protect their rights.