In the popular youtube video, "Whip My Hair Back and Forth," not the original, but one made by the youtube star BeenerKeeKee19952, the song "Whip My Hair Back and Forth" is shown in a completely new light. The song, originally sang by Willow Smith is reenacted, and lip sync by the boy on youtube.
At the beginning of this video, he states that he doesn't want people to "steal" his video and post it on their pages, because it is "not nice." However, nothing about this video is actually HIS OWN. He is breaking copyright law because nowhere throughout the video does it say he got permission from Willow Smith's record company, and also nowhere in the song does it say something about Willow Smith.
Youtube has many videos like this one, that break copyright laws. Because of how easy it is to get famous off of someone else's words, copyright law is slowly going down the drain. People have no morals and do not care about other people anymore. They only want to benefit themselves, which is what most youtube stars are doing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRjzXXWb91s&feature=fvwrel ---- WATCH THIS HILARIOUS VIDEO!
Copyright infringement has become more and more popular throughout the growing Youtube world. It is easy to access other people's ideas and make them "your own."
It's interesting that you put copyright in terms of morality. Do you see copyright infirngement as theft? How do we explain ancient art, where not only was there no such thing as copyright, but stealing from other works was encouraged because it showed that the artist, author, or whatever had seen, or read the other works? (in literary studies, we call this allusion).
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