Many people are unsure of how YouTube duck and weave the legal blows of copyright infringement. I recently read an article by slate.com, that gives you a simple overview.
Basically the company who owns the pipes that the internet run through is called Bell. Many years ago they came to a long and debated agreement with the “Hollywood and recording industry” to have a “notice and take down” for online media.
So why did Napster get punished?
Here’s a piece from the article.
“If the Internet were not a bookstore, or tubes, but rather a red-light district, YouTube would best be imagined as the hotel, and Napster, well, the pimp. YouTube, like a hotel, provides space for people to do things, legal or not. It’s not doing anything illegal itself, but its visitors may be. But Napster, everyone more or less now admits, was cast as the pimp: It was mainly a means of getting illegal stuff. Right or wrong, we seem to accept the benign vision of YouTube as an entity which, unlike Napster, was basically born as a place to showcase stupid human tricks.”
Related Articles:
Does YouTube Really Have Legal Problems?
http://www.slate.com/id/2152264/
Wikipedia – Digital Millennium Copyright Act
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMCA
Cartoon – GOOGLE-YOUTUBE-COPYRIGHTS-CAI-101206
http://cartoons.nytimages.com/wieck_preview_page_089631
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