My daughter likes to watch music videos and celebrity gossip on YouTube. Lately, there has been some controversy about copyright infringement on many of YouTube's videos. On the one hand, the artists and production companies have the right to decide when and where their material is used. On the other hand, the enforcement may be going a bit too far. If someone has a radio on in the background in their videos, the owner of the song playing may be able to have it removed from the videos. If someone uploads a video of their family and the television happens to be on in the background, I guess it is possible for the owner of the television material to ask YouTube to remove the video. It is an interesting dilemma--YouTube has it's hands full with all of these issues. Right now, my daughter watches videos but doesn't upload them, so this isn't an issue for us. I guess I need to educate her about these issues in case she wants to upload videos in the future. I have already tried to explain the issues related to downloading material from the internet--now I need to work on the issue of uploading. Technology is amazing, but it brings multiple issues into our lives that we never had to deal with before. The internet is full of both good and bad issues--we'll deal with the bad as it comes along, but we sure do love all of the good things about it! :)
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