With a click-click here and a scroll-scroll there, here a swipe, there a swipe, EVERYWHERE A CLICK-CLICK. Old MacTechCorp did some harm… and it was done by stealing the entirety of human intellectual property (IP), creativity, and everything else fashioned by humanity, copyrighted or not. We used to imagine that laws meant something. After all, if I take work created by someone else, and then use it to make money, I should not be surprised when enforcement follows. Anyone who creates content for social media knows this. Even to the point of absurdity, quite often. As an example, I once ran video of ISS astro-nots on YT in order to point out the glaring issues that prove they are not in space. The video was flagged and removed, citing copyright infringement due to the music track placed on the video, to protect it from re-post scrutiny, I would imagine. No one reading this is a stranger to the rules and enforcement of copyrighted content when posting on social media. But those rules are just for me and you. Big-tech is clearly exempt from such lowly concerns as copyrights and Intellectual Property. (Read more…)