The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #121599 Message #2657205
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
15-Jun-09 - 05:10 PM
Thread Name: YouTube removes videos - 'copyright issues'
Subject: RE: Youtube removes videos'copyright issues'
For a start, any playwright who went around writing plays using existing material the way Shakespeare did would rapidly find themselves in court, or in jail.
They were all at it, ever since writing was invented, and probably before. Homer, he was another one.
As for folksong around the world and over the ages, top to bottom it's been made up of people singing and adapting songs and tunes made up by other people, with never a penny changing hands.
It's going to be a very much impoverished future with that kind of thing outlawed from now on.