Privacy & Confidentiality

One of the problems that arises when we think of the digital world are laws. How do they protect the people or the products in this virtual world where people can post anything up so easily and who can be held responsible for it. When the first Kodak camera came out in 1888 their was a ruling on whether you needed to get peoples permission every time you took a picture of them. The ruling was no you do not need their permission. Now with the popularity of new media people like Lawrence Lessig are battling to protect technology advances and to allow the usage of media on the web more freely. 

When you post something on the internet, more specifically on a website such as YouTube you are hoping to get many views. But is it wrong to do a cover song from another company, or should you only be allowed to use original material. If it is alright to make a home video of you doing a cover song, but when you post it on the internet do they have the right to make you take it down. If you aren't making any profit from the song just simply showing off your talent and creativity should it be illegal to limit and restrict people. Companies want to protect their assets, and in a way they must make sure that if they music or any other products that can be used online are being used in a manner that they don't approve of that they can have the control to take it down from the web. But how do we decided when you are limiting peoples creativity and when a company can limit the use of their product on the web.