The issue of online copyright is fairly recent, and copyrighted in to YouTube is one of the matters of the current century. It is a controversial point between people who think that many websites, such as YouTube, are illegal, and the ones who think just the opposite, because they are users. The problem of YouTube is being discussed by different companies in the recent time. Google’s owner explained the cost of the lawsuit that YouTube is facing for infringing copyright material in the article “Copyright laws caught in the web,” (ABC Online.) YouTube must avoid uploading copyrighted material to the website, Viacom said. They also claim in the USA Today’s article “Viacom alleges YouTube copyright infringement,” that YouTube and others “has led to an explosion of copyright infringement.” This created a big argument among the members of YouTube and Viacom, the latter took the issue to the Court .The problematic discussion came up with a lawsuit where Viacom complains against the damages YouTube is causing to the company with the unauthorized viewing of its programs. Some examples are MTV, Comedy Central, The Daily Show with John Steward among others. Viacom’s main argument against YouTube, points out that the site “appropriates the value of creative content on a massive scale for YouTube’s benefit, without payment of license”. This clearly states that the website is going over the rules of intellectual property.
Despite all these judgments, YouTube has its defense. They say that Viacom’s argument not only judged and complained against them but also they are complaining against the Internet freedom which applies to all the exchange of information and communications ways among the internet. This is the statement that the research paper is trying to discover. It aims to figure out the limits of copyright law and what is illegal to do in the Internet and what is not. As it can be seen from the article “Copyright Laws caught in the web,” YouTube states that the company has agreements with content providers that allowed them to show legitimate copyrighted material while other videos in the site are protected by fair use.
Fair use it is similar to public domain, but it applies to copyrighted material, and means that everyone who uses copyrighted material must cite the source. YouTube also said that the site provides videos from amateur people who want to upload experiences or share them with others and the minority of the videos displayed in YouTube is not copyrighted. According to the definition of public domain, material that is not copyrighted can be available for anyone for free. However not all the information in the Internet is considered public domain, since a lot of it is copyrighted. The aim of these research papers is to explain the readers that sometimes people get confused about what applies for public domain and which are the laws for copyrighted material. People don’t really know that they have to cite videos taken from YouTube or even pay to have access to copyrighted material.
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