I have been studying copyright law on my own since I was in HS. And it just hit me: Under post-1978 copyright law, anything you create is copyrighted by law whether you register it or not as soon as it is in final "fixed form." So if someone uploaded something to Youtube they shot themselves, that's theirs, registration or no.
Yet networks take people's footage from the web all the time. Mostly without permission.
So that means that any of THOSE people could take NBC, FOX, CBS, CNN, ABC, all of them, right offline under SOPA as well. No court fight, no nothing. Poof, just like that.
Corporations may believe that only they have copyrights.
Not so. Media giants: the same gun is to your head.
Visit me at jlroberson.org or else. Or else what? Oh, you don't want to know.
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