Jeremy Kuper: YouTube will have to police the material that peop...

Courtesy guardian.co.uk Technology  Fri, 07/04/2008 - 12:30

I used to teach a course to staff at King's College London on copyright law, and one of the main pieces of advice I gave was that contrary to popular belief, content on the internet is not free.

Yes, you can access certain information online, but this does not mean that is legal to upload or download it, as the case may be.

It therefore came as no surprise that a US district court judge ruled in favour of...

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