Individual Reflection: Geraldine Chan Li Ting

In this project, I have learnt about the Terms of Service in video sharing sites. Uploading of videos that are not original and do not belong to an individual’s is an infringement of the Copyright Act. The purpose of these video sharing sites is to allow people to share their own videos with others. However, people have been misusing these video sharing sites by sharing videos that do not belong to them. Movies like Ironman which has only been released in the theatres recently, have already been uploaded in video sharing sites such as TuDou and Movie6.net. These movies are uploaded even before the DVD is released. People can be invading one’s privacy if they upload an individual’s video in a site without the person’s consent. This act is unethical and unacceptable. As an IT law and governance student, we have the responsibility to educate these people in order to prevent more copyrighted videos in video sharing sites, and also the ethics of sharing videos.