You Tube, coming to a court near you
If the words YouTube don’t mean anything to you, then you’re behind the times. The video sharing website is now hosting around 100 million videos, and this includes everything from amateur clips from mobile phones to segments taken from TV and movies. And of course, it’s not the amateur stuff that’s causing concern. TV and movie footage is copyright material, and it’s proliferating on YouTube, and similar sites, like Google Video. So are we in for future legal stoushes similar to the types we saw with the music industry? Steve Collins, is a Lecturer in the Department of Media at Macquarie University, has done extensive research on cyberculture and law, and I asked him the question, are there copyright breaches going on when you upload a short clip from TV up onto YouTube?