Copyright law is too confusing.
Providing free access to research papers on websites like Sci-Hub breaks so-called copyright law that was made to taboo free distribution of information on the Internet. That includes music, movies, documentaries, books, and research articles. Not everyone agrees that copyright law should exist in the first place.
Sci-Hub always intended to be legal, and advocated for the copyright law to be repealed or changed, so that it will not prohibit the development of science.
All content should be copied without restriction. But for education and research, copyright laws are especially damaging.
If you don't move to protect copyright, if you don't move to protect our children, it's not going to sit well.
But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright.
YouTube is committed to balancing the needs of the fan community with those of copyright holders.
When you have a group of engineers and designers, they are not exactly the best to deal with copyright law.
Actually, attorneys say, copying a purchased CD for even one friend violates the federal copyright code most of the time.
Podcasting is not really that different from streaming music, which we've done for quite a long time. Having a traditional podcast that people subscribe to - the hype is ahead of the quality. Podcasting is essentially a download, and you run into copyright issues. What you're left with currently is podcast talk radio.
