Property is nine tenths of the law. [citation needed]

The internet has become an integral part of everyday life in the 21st Century. People upload their photos, thoughts, songs, poems and countless other items for the world to see. With this, comes the issue of ownership, many websites make a point of expressing how you still own anything that you upload, the only issue with this being that just because the website may not claim it as their own, it doesn't mean other people won't. Countless cases of online profiles 'stealing' other people's works and passing them off have been reported. Often websites will ban accounts that fail to give the true owners the recognition they deserve, but as the ease of downloading a picture, and removing the watermark, are well within the grasp of many internet users it can often be difficult to fully enforce.

One story which shows that often the larger of two forces can crush the copyright claims of internet users, is that of Travis Irvine and Brian Kamerer. The article linked here, http://splitsider.com/2012/05/an-open-letter-to-jay-leno-about-stealing-my-video-and-then-getting-it-removed-from-youtube/ tells of how the the work of Irvine was shown on the Jay Leno show, without the permission of the original creator, the video was then removed from YouTube due to a copyright claim made by NBC. The video linked here, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOl6BpFScAc is now back in the hands of Irvine, but is an important lesson in how you may want to think twice before uploading anything to the internet.