Education of Intellectual Property

The war between YouTube (Google) and Viacom is very interesting. This is a highly concerned lawsuite as it is defining the boundary of compliance to DMCA concerning uploaded public content and the ad profits in relation.

DMCA defines the baseline for copyright materials on the Internet (at least in United States). The reason that DMCA is demanded: Internet is a different medium from legacy mediums and it forms a new world for copyright to apply to.

Ok, enough background. Now we are here to read about a blog post concerning the judge's ruling.
(Note that this blog could be biased.)

http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=9242

However, what alerts me is from talkbacks following the main article, it can be easily seen that some people either have no clue about what IP really is or are twisting it purposely.

The fun catch:

The lawsuit by Viacom against YouTube (Viacom) is somewhat a joke. Refer to "Controversial complaints" section in the page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viacom#Copyright_complaints_against_YouTube