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YouTube: Home to illegal and not-so-illegal content

September 01, 2016 12:00 AM
YouTube is inundated with music covers, but what is concerning to some is the legal implications of people posting videos of copyrighted content.
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Fair Use Week

February 24, 2015 12:00 AM
To the uninitiated, copyright law can seem like a confusing, perhaps overwhelming minefield of potential lawsuits and other problems just waiting to happen. It can be intimidating to see scary FBI warnings before watching a movie on DVD (if anyone still even does that) or to read cryptic copyright notices claiming “All Rights Reserved.” Even for those who deal with copyright issues regularly, the legal landscape can be quite complex and nuanced, making it difficult to predict outcomes in advance for certain unanswered questions.
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