Monday, April 4, 2016
Ethics Final
My topic for the final project will be about copyright/IP. The philosopher will be Nozick, the same person I did for the presentation. There were some topics that crossed my mind, but didn't include in the presentation. One being content creators on YouTube/other video hosting sites. Nozick talks about entitlement of property. As a gamer, I watch quite a bit of games on YouTube. Content creators make videos and get a portion of the ad money from YouTube for the viewer traffic. A while back, some game publishers argued they are entitled to some of the revenue as well since their games are a large part of the content. Nozick states that those who expend the time and resources to make the content has entitlement over it regardless of the process in which the content was made. Both the game publishers and the YouTube content creators put time and resources into the video, so who should have the rights to monetize the content?
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In cases like this I always think about the disclaimer that is read near the end of a Major League Baseball telecast or radio broadcast. "This broadcast is solely for the entertainment of our listening audience and is the property of Major League baseball. Any rebroadcast, re-transmission or use of the accounts and descriptions of this telecast without expressed written permission is strictly prohibited." The same principal should be applied to a video game. Another example of people using other people's work without compensating them.
ReplyDeleteI think if you can give a example which can show Content creators have put a lot of effort on thier video, it will show your topic stronger.
ReplyDeleteArgument of the game publishers also can't be ignored completely, because they have also put their time and effort to publish those games.
ReplyDeleteWhoever put in their effort to make this creation should be the sole owner of the product. I agree with Dr. Blue Ninja's example. You cannot just steal someone else's work without permission.
ReplyDeleteIn this case I think it might help to look up some User Agreements of games since the Youtube content creators might be violating the Terms of Agreement set by the game publishers.
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