User Generated Content

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Q25-S7jzgs

I know there is a thread devoted to Youtube videos, but I'm hoping to start a conversation around the issue of User Generated Content using this video as a jumping point.

The line between piracy and artistic expression is becoming ever more blurry. The video points to the internet, and websites like Youtube, to embody this blurred distinction, but it never really addresses that issue specifically with video games. With recent releases such as Little Big Planet and Guitar Hero: World Tour, what are essentially creation tools made into a sort of game, and the ever increasing amount of DLC available for a given game (essentially making "mods" on console available for purchase) this is an issue that may actually first be addressed by the video game industry before it is addressed by various websites on the internet.

My question is simple, but threefold: 1) What did you think of the video? Is a private solution to this dilemma the likeliest to happen and/or the best? 2) Where do you personally think re-creation ends and piracy begins? What should be within the public domain and what shouldn't? 3) What do you see the role of the video game industry as in all of this, a leader or a follower, and excluding all other areas of internet piracy and so forth, what solutions would work best for the video game industry?

1) The Video is very well thought out. Yet I'm still debating if this guy is for or against re-creation. Well one creation, the telephone, was and has been a controversial issue. Saying that the patent office was paid in advance to make sure Bell copyrighted it before the other gentlemen, while the other gentlemen was claimed to have the telephone ready, but he was a few months late apparently?

2) Personally, it begins and ends at when and where this invention or idea was sprouted. Public domain? Just really depends on the item at question, like the Pencil Sharper would be Public Domain in my honest opinion. What shouldn't? Silly stuff like "Who invented the Cheese Grader", since it's been re-done lord knows how many times, but God Bless that man who did!

3) Video Games are getting there, to re-write culture and history is getting tricky. Like "What year and date did the Super NES arrived" and let's not forget the current lawsuits with the Wii Remote patent is a very excellent example of what's going on and compared to this video.