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Case Study: Vidding -- Free Expression or Copyright Piracy?

Read Discussion Case Vidding -- Free Expression or Copyright Piracy? at the end of Chapter 13 in your text. In a one- to two-page paper (not including the title and reference pages) you must:

• Explain, using the ethical criteria introduced in Chapter 4 (utilitarianism, rights, and justice), if the creating and uploading of vids to the Internet are simply an ethical expression of one’s free speech, or if it is an infringement of intellectual property.
• Explain where to draw the line when using material found on the Internet, while trying to respect the artists’ intellectual property and rights to royalties from their creations. 
• Describe how different a vid should be from the original source to justify that it is no longer the same material as the original artist created and thus not covered under the copyright laws.