Yeah. I think there's a fine line there between an engine that searches and discovers and points back to the site and a service that actually transcodes and hosts that content. They are distributing with out distribution rights.
For example we are seeing new media search engines get a hold of our feeds, and offering them in their listings. It's something that we are watching very closely. And also something that we are still fighting with as we think about how to deal with media enclosures in RSS. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, John Dowdell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > David Dundas wrote: > > Lawrence Lessig did an introductory talk at the New York Public Library > > about copyright law and technology on April 7, 2005. > > He says that copyright laws stifle creativity, and democracy. It's an > > idea that begs the question. Would you stop creating what you create if > > someone could just take it and do whatever they wanted with it? > > Like, say, the Veoh issue...? > > > Some folks seem to conjugate the verb "I have privacy rights, you have > terms-of-service, he has evil DRM." Humans produce digital bits, and to > be full citizens I think we need to respect the privacy/copyright > decisions of others. > > (I think the Sonny Bono extensions to US copyright law were pretty > bogus, but more and more I'm realizing that creativity and privacy are > inextricably linked... if you create some digital bits, does that mean > anyone else has the right to repurpose them? Suppose they ignore your > precious little Creative Commons text, what recourse do you have to that > breach of an assumed social contract?) > > jd > > > > > -- > John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA > Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd > Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna > Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ > Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
