YouTube's fate rests on decade-old copyright law

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Our Cultural Heritage is at Stake here: In days before the internet there was a rich cultural flavor at loose in the countryside. Everywhere you went; stores, restaurants, parks, people's vehicles going by, beaches; simply everywhere had music of many different kinds floating freely in the air. It gave America a flavor of having a "culture".

Since these copyright laws got so tightened, entertainers have locked up our culture and want to sell it to us for a dollar every five minutes or so. It is ridiculous. They see themselves as the keepers of the arts and culture, but they want to copyright it and "own" it; thereby taking it away from the very nation of people they seek to represent in their art! IF you can afford a computer and an IPOD you're able to plug your OWN head into a pot of sound that you may selfishly keep to yourself, it does NOT float freely in the air like before when America was more free.

These days our nation needs a little culture. Why do you think the youth has such angry expression in art and costume? They feel isolated and they in fact, ARE. This has become a cold, stingy, hateful nation without culture since the Entertainment Corporations have bought up our culture and taken it away from us.

I think all human expression by virtue of our Constitutional preamble should be free. Once it goes out over the airwaves, it is gone and the "artist" should get back to work for the next paycheck just like the rest of us. Anyone who has managed to invest in a method to capture and record and re-enjoy that music should be as free to enjoy it again as those who seek the artist and buy their CD or DVD. Both avenues should be free. It is UN-American to criminalize enterprise.

We the people have got to stop thinking we need to support an elitist group of billionaires at the cost of our own enjoyment of the arts, at the cost of our own American culture. It can not thrive when it is boxed up and owned by the few.

My statements apply to everyone from Museums, to the classics, to country, to rock n roll, you name it.

Remember there are many many many people out here who do not earn the income levels of the good folks who work at CNET. We used to; but something happened that broke the economic base of the U.S. and it will take a decade of noninterference and hard work to mitigate it.

Meantime I will continue watching UTube because I can't afford TV cable or satellite. I choose internet instead because it is a much richer experience. As for Viacom? Who are they? I have never seen their name at UTube?; Posted by: YellowbirdTwo Posted on: 03/14/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use