What I found interesting about this week’s
readings were the issues surrounding copyright and YouTube online
productions. Any person has access to a
YouTube account and they are not restricted or limited to the content that they
post as long as it is appropriate. This
brings up this issue of having movie, TV, news, and music copyright
issues. Like Hilderbrand’s article said
it inst uncommon for access to a YouTube clip becoming denied over night because
of copyright issues. However this does
not seem to stop users from continuing to provide this denied content to its
views. Hilderbrand suggests that this
notion is caused because users have developed a sense of entitlement over
access to media (Hilderbrand, 50). SO
even if a song, movie clip, TV show or news broadcast is taken off YouTube
there will be a hundred people in line to upload that same clip to get a
substantial amount of “hit” on there page, providing access to the world.
I can relate to having suffered problems
dealing with YouTube copyright restrictions.
I myself do not upload videos that get taken down, however I have had
numerous occasions where I can access a song one day and the next day it is
gone due to copyright restrictions. I
even find it odd that you can find entire movies uploaded to YouTube. However in terms of songs copyright
restrictions are an iffy subject seeing as many people who upload their videos
or sometimes even songs are remixing.
Remixing take something that is already existing and change it and turn
it into something new. So for artists
that are sampling their music via YouTube may have a difficult time “making it”
because they are unfortunately breaking copyright laws.
Reference
Hilderbrand, L. (2007). Youtube: Where Cultural Memory
and Copyright Converge. Film
Quarterly. Vol. 61, No. 1, 48-57.
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