| I find it hilarious that the picture used for this thread represents one of the most prevalent copyright infringements in the world, only music, movies and games see more infringement and that's only if you look at the collective whole. It is estimated that the creator of Calvin and Hobbes loses millions yearly in revenue he should have got for the use of them. Oh that and the usual libel associated with the image (defacing a logo) In fact legally almost every use of that image would result in a minimum of five years jail time (there is no legal argument that supports the user, it's only the fact it would go on for decades with the number of infringements and Bill Watterson has better things to do with his time it isn't happening)
That said, YouTube is one of the best places about copyrighted material, hell they check all incoming movies in an attempt to make sure nothing gets posted they've already banned. Everybody is just pissed because they have to make the complaint first to get it removed, and they don't want to hire someone just to make sure YouTube does not have their stuff (which ironically would likely be cheaper in the long run then all this suing) |