start here: http://goo.gl/1ot8r (an article about this exact case)

2) read Lawrence Lessig's "Free Culture."


Basically, all those original copyright laws were made hundreds of years ago were not made with something as alien as the internet in mind. And there is no way to easily apply these archaic rules to how people share things today.

Instead of holding on to these ancient laws, lawmakers need to step up and re-examine and adjust things to fit into how people behave in 2010.


it's complex. it's murky. it's going to be a bitch to figure out.