The Name of the article I found interesting in the BNA Internet Law News is titled "Prince Lashes Out at YouTube, eBay, and the Pirate Bay. The article talks about how Prince, a famous musician, is filing a lawsuit against these three websites. One of Prince's representatives informed him that these websites are not abiding by correct copyright laws. Prince is upset because those websites are wrongfully making profits off of his music. Prince hired a British based company to track down all the content that is shared illegally. This company claims that in the last week they have taken over 2000 infringing clips of Prince off of YouTube, but by the next day there are already another 100-200 clips available.
The article later goes on talking about how this may be a hard case for Prince to win. All of the websites argue that they are not breaking any of the copyright laws. A lot of Prince's fans may become angry with him because they may think he is doing this out of greed. Also, a lot of people are taking the side of the websites, because all of those sites have so many users and none of the want to see these sites get shut down. In my opinion I can understand why Prince wants to file a lawsuit and I feel he may win this suit. I feel this way because if he has proof that they are allegedly breaking copyright laws, then he is all set. These websites work in the way that other people add the clips and movies to the site and they can be viewed by others thereafter. Since this is the case, the owners, or employees of the sites should view all of these clips before adding them just to make sure they abide by all of the standards. If this were the case then this wouldn't be an issue.
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