Week 6- Tutespark

Linking back to this weeks lecture, we were asked to question how much of what we put onto the internet we own and what rights we actually have to them.

1000's of videos are uploaded to YouTube everyday, for users all around the world. While the site is full of copyrighted music videos, movie scenes, TV snipits and so on, even when a user creates the video themselves, they do not have complete rights over the video. YouTube claims in their terms and conditions of the site, that:

"For clarity, you retain all of your ownership rights in your Content. However, by submitting Content to YouTube, you hereby grant YouTube a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, publish, adapt, make available online or electronically transmit, and perform the Content in connection with the Service and YouTube's (and its successors' and affiliates') business, including without limitation for promoting and redistributing part or all of the Service (and derivative works thereof) in any media formats and through any media channels. You also hereby grant each user of the Service a non-exclusive license to access your Content through the Service, and to use, reproduce, distribute, display, publish, make available online or electronically transmit, and perform such Content as permitted through the functionality of the Service and under these Terms of Service."

So basically, YouTube allows users to believe they have rights to the video's they may have created themselves but at the end of the day, YouTube may do what they like with them, and so may the millions of people who also use YouTube, doesn't seem particularly safe or right does it?

In regards to social networking sites such as Facebook, while the site allows you to determine what the public can and cannot view, the administration of Facebook can access so much more than what you may allow. Simply by creating a Facebook account, gives the admin the non-exclusive right to access and utilise an IP content you post or are in connection with.

At the end of the day, while you may create a video yourself and upload it yourself, YouTube can do what they like with it, and while you may make your Facebook profile as private as possible, the admin can still easily access it and do what they like with whatever information you post and this is all 100% legal.