Google makes no secret of its contempt for copyright and intellectual property ownership — believing, as so many Netters do, that “information should be free.”<\/p>\n
To which I say, “Bull*(#$%*!!!”<\/p>\n
In February, Viacom asked Google-owned YouTube to remove more than 100,000 unauthorized video clips of copyrighted TV shows from its site.<\/p>\n
When YouTube did not comply, Viacom filed suite against YouTube and Google for copyright infringement, seeking over $1 billon in damages … in a case that DM News (3\/19\/07, p. 1) says “may determine the future of content distribution over the Internet.”<\/p>\n
Some argue that the exposure of the video clips on YouTube is good for Viacom, promoting their shows to a wider audience — and so Viacom should be happy that YouTube is giving them all this free exposure.<\/p>\n
But they miss the point, and the point is this: the decision of whether to let someone reproduce or distribute copyrighted material lies solely with copyright holder.<\/p>\n
To take someone else’s copyrighted music, video, article, or story — and distribute it online or elsewhere without their consent — is stealing, pure and simple.<\/p>\n
Internet types love to talk about the importance of “permission-based marketing.”<\/p>\n
How about “permission-based Internet publishing”?<\/p>\n
That makes sense.<\/p>\n
Right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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