The introductory part of Chapter 1 was something that really grabbed my attention. Videos are uploaded to youtube all the time, who would ever think you'd have to get permission to use some of them. It's kind of sad that a woman uploading a video of her baby dancing to Prince's song could be a violation to copyrights. Wouldn't this mean every person that ever did the Soulja Boy, Dougie, or Cupid Shuffle would have to take theirs down too? It would take days to find all these videos, and I really don't think it is fair for the woman to have to take this cute video of her baby off, when there is tons of other videos out there "violating" copyrights. I don't agree with her having to take it off, as a matter of fact, I don't think any videos should ever have to be removed. People do parodies of other peoples things all the time, 99% of the time, not trying to steal their stuff. It's called inspiration for a reason, to create an idea, I feel as if you are always inspired by someone else to create this idea. In my opinion, Universal took this case way too far by not backing down, you really took this woman to court over this? Do you need money that bad?
As I write this I wonder if things I have ever done could get me in trouble. Say that I sing karaoke, and my friends record it and put it on youtube as a joke. I guess this could happen to me? Somethings I just don't really agree with on copyright rules. I feel that if your intentions aren't malicious, there shouldn't be a punishment.
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