Does anyone worry about copyright laws?

I worry that they are being misused to benefit the Disney Company, which would have lost the rights to its creatures by now if it hadn’t bribed Congress to intervene.

The RIAA is aggressive pursuing offenders.

videos where?

if its on youtube, the way things are at the moment is its up to the owner to say if they allow it or not.

you can use other peoples material as far as i know, but only in 30 second portions for parody and criticizm purposes.

note: this is not legal advice.

I am afraid of getting sued by the Hill family by singing “Happy Birthday to You”.

@The_Compassionate_Heretic The RIAA has officially announced that it is no longer doing that kind of crap, actually.

Of course, they then decided to continue to do that kind of crap.

Personal take on it: no matter how hard you try and how many people you sue and how many draconian policies you make, bits won’t get any harder to make copies of.

It would be fine if it continued to serve the original purpose, but now it’s just to enrich huge corporations. When the music industry prosecuted Napster instead of buying it and monetizing it, it wrote its own death warrant. Why should we bail them out for having made a bad business decision?

I’ve seen videos that are either pulled entirely or shown without sound by Youtube, if the use of the music in them violates copyright.

(P.S. – @pdworkin – what was the original purpose, if not to protect the property for the profit of the entity that originated it?)

It protected individuals for a certain number of years. Now it protects corporations indefinitely.

Right. And in the eyes of the law, a “corporation” is a legal entity, like an individual, albeit without much of a conscience. (And more lobbying power, a la Disney, as you said.)

Please don’t think I’m on the side of evil corporations. What we need to do is change the legal status of corporations so they don’t count corporally by law, but that’s a ways off.

And an individual can’t buy indefinite protection by bribing Congress.

@pdworkin Sure he can- by getting elected president.

Whether or not you get into legal trouble, it makes the video look amateurish.

Here are some good resources on fair use and copyright:
http://fairuse.stanford.edu/
http://www.lib.rochester.edu/copyright/

I made a RvB video of Caboose on youtube and received this in my email:

Dear tyrantxseries,

Your video “best of caboose” has been identified by YouTube’s Content Identification program as containing copyrighted content which Rooster Teeth LLC claims is theirs.

Your video “best of caboose” is still available because Rooster Teeth LLC does not object to this content appearing on YouTube at this time. As long as Rooster Teeth LLC has a claim on your video, they will receive public statistics about your video, such as number of views. Viewers may also see advertising on your video’s page.

Claim Details:
Copyright owner: Rooster Teeth LLC
Content claimed: Some or all of the audio and visual content
Policy: Allow this content to remain on YouTube.

* Place advertisements on this video’s watch page.

Applies to these locations:
Everywhere

Rooster Teeth LLC claimed this content as a part of the YouTube Content Identification program. YouTube allows partners to review YouTube videos for content to which they own the rights. Partners may use our automated video / audio matching system to identify their content, or they may manually review videos.

If you believe that this claim was made in error, or that you are otherwise authorized to use the content at issue, you can dispute this claim with Rooster Teeth LLC and view other options in the Video ID Matches section of your YouTube account. Please note that YouTube does not mediate copyright disputes between content owners. Learn more about video identification disputes.