This broadcast journalism story is “Viacom sues Google over YouTube clips”. It’s about a major broadcast television corporation suing Google (YouTube’s parent company) over unlawful, copyrighted misuse of clips and shows. This complaint covered about 160,000 YouTube videos that had reportedly been viewed over 1.5 billion times.
Not only did this story combine broadcasting and the web, it dealt with copyrights and the battle between casual internet users and major companies. This issue is prevalent today as more and more people are using the internet as a means of communicating and sharing media with others.
Mike Masnick, a copyright expert, commented “the internet was always a communications platform, and it’s just the broadcast media who are trying to force it to act more like a broadcast system.”
Is this the case? Is broadcast media controlling and negatively affecting the “communications platform” of the web? It’s definitely some food for thought. Check out the link below:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/may/27/googlethemedia.web20
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