But the usual suspects, privacy invasion and identity theft, are not the only potential legal problems swirling around social networking media: copyright has recently begun muscling in on the debate.
If you were to attempt to write a law governing media copyright in 1998, would you attempt to do so without acknowledging the existence of the Internet and compression methods like MPEG-1?
Long accused of being one of the most notorious global violators of American media copyright, YYeTs won't see many tears shed on its behalf in America.
The media companies' copyrighted material, like television shows and music videos, show up on YouTube without the media companies' permission.
The internet and file sharing are disruptive technologies that give consumers vastly more ability to use all sorts of media content, copyrighted or not.
The UK coalition government has moved slowly in implementing the Digital Economy Act, which addresses policy issues related to digital media, including copyright infringement, and it has been an uphill struggle to get internet service providers to help combat the issue.
Walt Disney Productions on Friday filed 70,456 lawsuits against U.S. and international media, claiming copyright infringement in all uses of the phrase, "The End of the World," and various derivatives, such as "World Ending," "It's Over," and "Oh, Well".
Never use copyrighted media unless you are the copyright holder or have full permission from the latter.
The case has revealed the tensions between Google and media companies over copyrights.
It was filed at the height of tensions between Google and media companies over copyrights — tensions that have since eased substantially.
