Has copyrighting prevention gone too far?

[Adinnieken]

Mr Khan said:

Adinnieken said:
Game publishers are just catching up with other copyright holders in the digital age. Music publishers own the rights to any music of theirs that gets published, and thus any money earned from views. Same with movie studios. I have a few popular videos on YouTube, but I don't legally get to collect any money from them because I don't own the content, and that's fair. If I owned the content, I'd be pissed if someone else was making money of it.

I agree it's fair. The problem is when they go after the people who aren't making any money, which happens all too often.

I only had one music studio require a take down.  Which sucked, because it was one of my favorite videos that I put together.  But again, I don't own the content, I just mash it together.  Since I can only claim ownership to the entire work and not to the parts I used to create the videos, I don't feel I have a complaint.  If someone took the video I created and subsequently used it in whole, I would be pissed.  If someone who held the copyright to one of the works I used in my video did, I wouldn't be pissed but honored that they felt it was worth publishing as their own.