As with several other laws in the history of the United States, as the obsolescence of copyright began to set in, so did its potential for abuse. Given the unregulated dog-eat-dog frontier we refer to capitalism and its highly-held position in American culture, this abuse almost immediately began to rise to its potential. Laws that were initially created to promote creativity began to dampen it. Now, if one posts a video containing any sort of copyrighted material on Youtube, no matter what the use, it is almost instantaneously taken down and in its place is left the message “Due to a copyright claim by [insert monopoly here], this video has been removed.” The absurd, persecuting, and creative-dampening nature that these old laws have taken on in the modern day should be a sign to any rational individual that Congress needs to overcome the immense influence of the RIAA and MPAA and implement some sort of new law which allows artists to breathe again.
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