I figure that I need to write in my blog more, so why not kill two birds with one stone?

I want to start off by saying that I love John Philip Sousa.  Now that I have that out of the way…

Read-Write

Computers and technology are helping to put the “write” back into the “read-write”.  I especially liked his use of the slideshow going on in the background emphasizing his main points – my personal favorite was when he was describing kids today and he said something along the lines of “that’s who they are”, and on the slide show it just showed “r”.  That encompasses my perception of the new “read-write”.  Kids can read, and kids can write.  As long as it looks sumthin liek this.  When students r riting papers n txt style, sumthin s rong.

But I’m getting off track.

Fair Use

My biggest question is, where is the line between fair use and copyright infringement?  Why is it okay to use music that is NOT in the public domain and set it to a slideshow of pictures that YOU didn’t take and put it on YouTube, yet it is not okay to upload TV shows or movies?  [I'm not saying I think that it's okay to copy TV shows and movies and put them on the web without permission, even though I watch TV shows through that medium; I just don't understand the difference, perhaps just becuause I don't understand copyright laws as well as maybe I should]