Jade

Google quietly deals with YouTube audio copyright violations (Download Squad)

Feb 19th 2009 10:43PM If its illegal, then why are there so many fan music video sites out there?
Like I've seen official fan video site for tv shows and movies like: Lost, Stargate, Star Wars, Star Trek, X-Files, Buffy, Smallville, Anime...etc.

I mean, if you look at theforce.net under fan films, there is a fan made video, where some fan took some behind the scenes footage, added some backgrounds, and even put the lightsaber and blaster effects. It was accepted! And theforce.net is owned by Lucas(Companies).

I seriously think this stuff is not illegal. If it really was, then there would be agents at every door and the courts would be flooded with this crap!

Fans are making any money. So what if they do this. It promotes their stuff. Gets people to go buy albums, movies, tv show seasons. In a sense, they are getting more money because of this.

I made a fan video, had 5 people who had never seen the movie before, they all went out and bought it! And 3 of them went to amazing and buy the song!

And then what's next. You are recording your own stuff with your own camera, the radio is on, and it gets rejected before it happen to hear a song?!?

Or why stop with music and movies. Why not sue every fan who makes fan art, fan fiction, or fan constumes!

As long as no money is being made, you are safe to make this. I've never heard of anyone saying they had police, FBI or a government/legal agent come to their house, saying 'stop making videos' or making them go to jail or pay a fine!

I mean, I bought all my movies and music. Why can't I make a fan video, show my friends. That's be like I draw a picture of some famous person or a clip from a movie or album cover. And they say its copyright!