YouTube: Legal and Ethical Considerations for User Generated Content
Given YouTube's experiences, what would you consider to be the major legal and ethical concerns an entrepreneur faces when starting a business focused on User Generated Content?
Do you believe YouTube effectively and correctly responded to potential legal abuses of copyright and intellectual property rights laws? Explain.
To what degree do the legal issues facing YouTube and other User-Generated Content sites provide a lessons learned message to entrepreneurs in general?
List the major legal and ethical concerns an entrepreneur must consider when starting a business such as YouTube that generates UGC.
Analyze YouTube's legal response to the allegedly legal abuses of copyright and intellectual property rights, and evaluate each in terms of ethical practices in the digital age.
Evaluate each of the "lessons learned" from YouTube in terms of the key issues an entrepreneur must deal with in starting a UGC company.