Copyrights is relevant for everyone (yes,and YOU)

Before starting on this project and before even beginning to research intellectual property or copyrights, i believed it was an important issue but a subject not widely spoken of and not thought about much. Well after 5 minutes of looking up information i found i couldn't have been more wrong. It is literally all around us, in the newspaper, on the internet, on the TV, however what surprised me the most was when i happened to come across it regarding the American presidential campaign. Who would have thought the President of the United States of America and his campaign could have been caught up in a copyright battle? Well it seems so, a merchandising company who says they have helped support the democrats for over 25 years have been sued concerning the mis-selling of products with the Obama logo. Surely Obama and his team have much more important things to concentrate on than losing out on a few dollars because their official merchandising store is selling less than they would be. At least it shows they have the support, right? What's more interesting is it seems this isn't the only case of copyright issues with a presidential candidate. In 2008 McCain asked for special treatment regarding his campaign videos after they were taken down by YouTube as they were not fitting with copyright legislation. Many major media companies such as Warner Music Group, CBS and Fox news even showed their support for the videos being removed.

This just shows how no one, not even you, is exempt from Copyright law!

(Information from http://www.newser.com/story/147380/obama-campaign-sues-site-for-selling-obama-gear.html and http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/15/mccain_campaign_wants_youtube_dmca_special_treatment/ )