Video Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Q25-S7jzgs

In the video "How Creativity is Being Strangled by the Law", the speaker, Larry Lessig, expresses an intriguing argument about how certain copyright laws on the internet can have a large negative effect on the creativity of many youths across the globe. As an artist and an internet user, I strongly agree with his argument. In the past, I used to have a YouTube account that I shared with a group of friends. We used to join together to make short parody clips and animated music videos. Everything we made we posted on YouTube, because we wanted to share our creative hobbies with the world. As the years passed however, the animated music videos and parody clips we would make, were soon seen as a copyright infringement, and eventually our account was suspended. Since then, my friends and I have not bothered to make a single video. We felt that it would be pointless to make videos and not be able to share them with the our peers. Because I haven't made videos in such a long time, my video editing skills have nearly disappeared. I can't even remember how to properly make an animated music video. 

I was always confused by the copyright laws on the internet. I never understood why the animated music videos and parody clips we would make were considered an infringement on copyright. We placed a disclaimer on every video, stating that the videos were made for purely entertainment purposes and that we were in no way making any sort of profit out of them. Yet still, our account was deleted and all of our videos were removed. Like Larry Lessig, I do not think that parody videos, animated music videos, and remixes are a form of piracy. If many youths are making these sort of videos for fun and entertainment, and not for profit, than shouldn't this form of creativity be permitted?