Copyright

The speaker in this crazy rant brought up some valid points about how individuals in the past could pick and choose different media and content and then put it all together to be called their own. His story about how Walt Disney stole ideas from Steamboat Bill since copyright wasn't existent and claimed it as his own just shows how people get away with and are comfortable stealing from other peoples' work. In Asia it's the same, gaming companies, anime companies as well as other technological aspects do not use copyrights over there, the culture is based off the honor system. A person can upload any of their ideas onto the internet and not be fined since there aren't laws that protect the companies content. That's a social norm over in asia though, in America this is seen as opportunity to get ahead with a great idea.

The copyright wars though have gone beyond what they are intended for, companies make thousands if not millions for giving permissions to others so they may use their content. For the guy that wanted to use the Simpson's picture, $25k would have to be thrown down for the permission to use it. That's highly absurd, since now copyrights are being viewed as a window of making money instead of their original goal which was just to protect concent from being stolen and acredited to others. The speaker does bring up a good point though about how there are grey areas in the technological aspect of our world today, stating that as long as it's tweaked and not the same then someone can copyright that image and not get in trouble with the law aspect behind the technological changes.