Read Discussion Case Vidding -- Free Expression or Copyright Piracy? at the end of your text. In a one- to two-page paper (not including the title and reference pages) you must:
- Explain, using the ethical criteria (utilitarianism, rights, and justice), if the creating and uploading of vids to the Internet are simply an ethical expression of one's free speech, or if it is an infringement of intellectual property.
- Explain where to draw the line when using material found on the Internet, while trying to respect the artists' intellectual property and rights to royalties from their creations.
- Describe how different a vid should be from the original source to justify that it is no longer the same material as the original artist created and thus not covered under the copyright laws.