With the possibility of copyrighted content being altered by other users when posted on user-generated sites like YouTube - recently purchased by Google for us$1.65 billion - content owners are facing increasingly complex rights issues. Should they retain an iron-fisted approach when it comes to their copyright and risk losing out on a market that is becoming increasingly user-driven, or should they relax restrictions on use and trust the market to sort itself out?

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