One that I realize a lot, pretty much everyday, is that of using words from a song, or the song itself. Under copyright laws, the song is not ours to use, even if the words are uploaded somewhere online. The place I see this happen the most is on Facebook and Myspace, if anyone actually uses that anymore. Almost everyday, or at least every other day, someone has posted a "status" that is some song lyric that they have heard recently, that they like, or even ones they randomly came across. What most people don't realize it that by using those words, they are violating the copyright that the artist has when they wrote the lyrics.
Another common infringement on copyrights on music is using the song for some reason or another. This is most commonly seen on YouTube. Some people have posted videos with songs playing throughout the video. Now there's a fuzzy line between what is legal and what is not, but many videos out there to violate copyrights in some way. Especially those that have the song playing with the words displayed throughout the video; that's illegal in more ways then one.
These are just two ways that I see copyrights being violated on a daily basis, but there is definitely more where these came from.
No comments:
Post a Comment