Copyright Craziness
“Post the poem on your course website and that attorney can find the violation in two seconds.”
I found this quote interesting because I personally feel that it is contradictory to what the reality of the web is or at least to the way that I perceive it. While all the various material on the web is copyright protected the adaptability and openness of the web makes it nearly impossible to control your intellectual property 100%. I can do a google search for a PDF version of a book I want to read and with some digging usually find a copy and download it without paying. Taking an image from a web page is stupidly easy as well as pirating music.
With higher profile sites I have noticed that videos, music, books, and images will get taken down from time to time due to legal action by the Intellectual Property’s (IP) owner. Like I said you can just dig deeper to find what your looking for and no lawyer team will be able to reach all corners of the internet. Thats why I find this statement so contradictory to the fact because I feel as though some small random website designed to be for a semester-long course that posts a picture is not something that lawyers are going to be looking at to slam with a lawsuit. Also, if you are not allowed to post it on your website, why not just put the link in for the site that does have the permission to print it? Some of this stuff just seems silly to me but I can understand the necessity of it when some people make their living off of IP.