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I'm a student in Media Arts and Animation, and I got some violation because I posted what I specified was a student effort. Apparently I can't show my A/V editing music video because I didn't write, perform, and record my own song--as well as all the massive work that goes on with a project in college. Plus, if you try to make your case and the flagger says "screw you", YOU get penalities for the audacity of wanting to make your case! Plus, there's no guarantee that's actually the copyright holder and not some moron who's upset with something you said or did and is trying to get back at you.

Not only that, but there have been copyright flags on things that aren't using copyrighted material--the Creation Science Evangelism group was doing a lot of that. So there's not even a way of knowing if the actual copyright holder has a bug up his butt or whether someone who doesn't like something you said is submitting a fraudulent copyright flag.

Problem is, everything is for the greed of the guys making more money than they need. I'm sorry, but an individual, especially a student or average person, or even a kid, should be able to show off their talents without having to be a one-man creating machine. This protect (the rich guy's) copyright and every cent he can get his greedy mitts on will render youtube null and void.

I know some greedy morons and greedy moron sypathizers would say "what if you were making any money off your stuff and these people were using your songs to make youtube videos?" Well, if the individual were making money later on, I'd have a problem with that, but I tell you I'd rather make 5 mil and let some people get away with copyright violations than make 10 mil by becoming some sort of greedy Nazi with my work. "Mine, mine mine".

I mean, Disney (for example) has the audacity to own everything the workers do! If you go home and on your own paper and your own software create something on your own time, it is theirs by default--which should be illegal, because it amounts to slavery. If that caught on it would be the end. Why should I create just so my corporate overlords can reap all the benefits? Why is it that a couple of kids can't have fun with a song because it's "NOT THEIRS", but the corporations can violate any number of people's rights and it's just okay, just business?

Greed has run rampant in this country, and it's going to kill this country and everything that has ever made it great.