If owners of creative work do not assert their right to be compensated for copying, they argue, they will inevitably lose those rights. These two sites decided they would undercut Fox's Web site by doing their own. They took our images, they took our logo. They are doing things that are against the wishes of the creators of the show. Copyright law has always sought to strike a balance between the public's right to free speech and the creator's right to control the distribution of his work, legal experts say.
People have a sense of entitlement.
They'll say 'Gee, Microsoft had a good year,' and copy some software. You don't see people helping themselves to a Cadillac because GM had a good year. Soon they'll be able to do that with songs and movies. There have to be both legal and technical solutions. But others argue that the laws and economics of copyright will have to be radically reinterpreted to square with the Net's free-wheeling nature.