Poll: Does our generation recognise copyright laws?

[Signa]

a birthday isn't a public event,

It's public enough based on other [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1220423/Corner-store-worker-told-stop-singing-works--pay-licence.html] incidents [http://www.thinq.co.uk/2010/7/7/barber-fined-playing-music/]. Warner Brothers isn't stupid or quite petty enough to charge some one with infringement on the song. However, because of how laws are written, you can get fined thousands for playing the radio in your workplace, because it's considered public performance, even when it's not a public establishment. Seems the recording industry is forgetting that the radio station is paying royalties for performing the songs publicly.

 

[ElPatron]

To be fair, Youtube is probably REALLY strict about those kinds of things because they want to avoid a lawsuit at any cost.

Which makes sense. Lawsuits suck hardcore style.

They are not strict. Someone just used the report function. There was no lawsuit involved.

The issue was a video of a kid getting hit on the head by a paintball (that is all over youtube) that I modified with video editing software and to which added my own content.

Copyright laws were actually supposed to protect me.




As far as I am concerned, copyright laws should only protect intellectual property and not restrict it because it's all turning into a global joke.

 

[Raven's Nest]

I just think the governments of the world should spend less money on bombs and more money funding creative endeavours... Oh utopia, when will you be real?

 

[Veylon]

also I think copyright protection should last for the life span of the author and not a second longer

So if I shoot J.K. Rowling, I can get my Harry Potter fanfic in print? Success! Seriously, though, there shouldn't be an incentive to off popular authors in order to muscle in on their works. The 28 years sounded fine to me and, if the author dies before then, their inheritors can pick up the rest.

 

[Uncreation]

No and rightfully so. I refuse to recognize copyright law as legitimate until it's rewritten to not be a giant pile of bullshit.

I'm with you. But i don't think this will happen any time soon.

 

[Rin Little]

I'm 22, and I think our generation recognizes copyright, but we stopped giving a fuck because it's been abused so much. If it was the basic "you cannot recreate something that's already in existence and take credit for making it" then that would be fine. But at this point, most of the attachments that come with copyright laws are just ridiculous and people fully abuse the copyright laws, I mean look how many times WB and J.K. Rowling have tried to sue people for stuff over the Harry Potter series. They tried suing over an Indian film that was called "Hary Puttar" which wasn't even a fantasy film or a reference to "Harry Potter."