This week we are going to discuss some new topics related to “Copyright, Privacy and Fair Use”. The materials that has been given is covering different topics for this week’s blog. The reading material like “South Park wins Lawsuits over “What What in the Butt” Parody, “Yes, Copyright’s sole purpose is to benefit the Public”, “Fair use Doctrine”, and the documentary “Downloaded: Napster Documentary” was quite interesting to watch.

Starting from the article “South Park wins Lawsuits over “What What in the Butt”, it was about the fight over a copyright video where the Brownmark Films in November, 2008 was got sued over a South Park episode entitled “Canada on Strike” in which the character Butters re-created an Internet video sensation from the singer Samwell. Brownmark claimed that the re-creation of its video constituted copyright infringement. In response to that Viacom said it was a parody and fell squarely within “fair use” exceptions to copyright. We all are familiar with the copyright term and that if we are using any other person work either the writing, visuals or in any other form we are bound to give the credit to that original person and we cannot use their work in any case.

Coming towards the next article “Yes, Copyright’s sole purpose is to benefit the Public”, this articles was based on the constitution about the copyright phenomenon and the debates of people on it. The key argument of this article is what the law does for both author and for the general public, who it impacts and how is it structured. And it is simply outrageous, and outside the monarchy of the logical thoughts, to argue that it was designed first to benefit the artists. Of course, it surely does benefit the artist as a byproduct of the method. But it also refer that if it benefits the public then it is great to benefit the author.

What I have understood from the term “Fair use Doctrine: is that it is a legal doctrine that promotes freedom of expression by permitting the unlicensed use of copyright-protected work in certain circumstances. In the Copyright Act the whole list of the situations was given in which the use of copyright work will be considered un the terms of the “Fair use” and the person is not being charged for copying the work of any author.

In the last, the documentary “Downloaded: Napster Documentary” was based on the time when the use of internet was not that common among people. And in that period of time it was like a big thing for people to have the music of their choices available on internet and they can download those tracks too. This documentary was based on such a topic in which two of the characters named Sean Parker Shawn Fanning were dreaming for a file-sharing online service that brought down the wrath of rock stars and record companies.

From all of the above discussion, I have felt that we are now engulfed so much in the internet and we now become use to of having the information access to us that we do not consider copyrights anymore. My question to you all is

• What are your suggestions/opinions on these facts?
• Do you think that Copyrights should be placed for everything available on internet?
• Do you consider the Copyrights when you use any of the data from the Internet

Keeping in mind this week’s topic I am going to share an article on the Copyright news about Netflix sued for Copyright Infringement over Tiger King.

Link: https://www.intellectualpropertynews.com/copyright-news/