{"id":221,"date":"2007-02-02T13:41:37","date_gmt":"2007-02-02T18:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/02\/02\/hoping-for-a-heavyweight-copyright-smackdown\/"},"modified":"2007-02-02T13:41:37","modified_gmt":"2007-02-02T18:41:37","slug":"hoping-for-a-heavyweight-copyright-smackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/02\/02\/hoping-for-a-heavyweight-copyright-smackdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Hoping for a Heavyweight Copyright Smackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, in a conversation with a friend, I described YouTube as &#8220;potentially the biggest single copyright infringer in history.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 It seems that <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Business\/wireStory?id=2844584\">Viacom may share my sentiment<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, just because I think that YouTube owes much of its existence to copyright infringement, it doesn&#8217;t mean that I agree with the laws that make it so.\u00c2\u00a0 In fact, I think they&#8217;re an awful set of laws, from a public interest perspective.\u00c2\u00a0 But who&#8217;s going to argue for the public interest?\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Pretty much no one with any effectiveness.\u00c2\u00a0 So I&#8217;d very much love to see a clash of the well-funded titans over this.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s hoping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, in a conversation with a friend, I described YouTube as &#8220;potentially the biggest single copyright infringer in history.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 It seems that Viacom may share my sentiment. Now, just because I think that YouTube owes much of its existence to copyright infringement, it doesn&#8217;t mean that I agree with the laws that make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4,6,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-content-distribution","category-law","category-policy","category-tech"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}