See you on the InTube

The scrimmage on intellectual property protection is part of a wide-ranging debate on how much intellectual protection there should be and who owns what. One of the arguments for intellectual property is that it cost somebody money to create knowledge or entertainment. The fact that Joosts’video has a start-up going and Viacom has jumped into bed with them and decided to the extent that a menage e twa with Google wasn’t satisfying enough. Hey!! Promises talk and GS walks. This merger and Internet TV ,InterTube, or InTube(my words,copyrighted:)) is going to lackless and there will be no future in this. Hasn't any one been paying attention to regs. on HDTV and the future(which was suppose to be settle on a standard in 1997)..The copyright wars on property, especially with video has been going on for a while. After film, came “The Great Time Machine” A video tape player/recorder from Magnavox to hit the market aimed at consumers. Sony’s Betamax Tape system was new on the west coast and Matsushita’s VHS was on the same tracks. The friction of copyrighted video intellectual property has begun. The Question? Am I performing copyright infringement recording “off the air waves” shows like “Leave it to Beaver” and placing them on magnetic tape? The logical answer was yes, BUT!! If your doing it for your own enjoyment and not charging a fee for someone else to watch then its ok.
That was the calming of the seas answer as far as consumers or everyday people like us were concerned. The law regarding major players was that they pay royalties. If Google/YouTube did not own the copyrights of any of the videos they were showing, then they have no foot to stand on. If Viacom owns them and decides to back Joost well that’s ok as long as Viacom pays royalties to any living movie stars or relatives of dead ones. There are laws in place from the VCR days. The adage that nothing is free in this world is true. Somebody, somewhere owns anything in question, at least when there is money involved. Did we talk about video films that are now public domain?
Lets face it SLOWSCAN TELEVISION rules. Which is free by the way.
Indus