I got an email from Gina Preoteasa of Trylon SMR in
New York, with a link to a story on Multichannel News, by P. J. Kuyper,
president and CEO of the Motion Picture Licensing Corporation, titled “As it
turns out, kids get copyright”, link here.
The article suggests that teenagers woke up to
copyright when Instagram shocked everyone by wanting the right to use and sell
their photos without permission – a concept that could possibly jeopardize the
privacy and online reputations of the subjects of the photos.
The article also says that the Center for Copyright
Information has already launched its six-strike Copyright Alert System, apparently
effective March 1.
The concern that I (and many other have) is
primarily about downstream liability – the idea that those with deep pockets
should be responsible for screening content posted by users . That’s mediated by the fact that YouTube does
have an automated screening methodology that can catch some gross
infringement.
As for video or music, unless it were mine to start
with, I wouldn’t see much point in posting it. I don't need to be "imagined".
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