copyright and youtube

In chapter 4 of "Communication and Cyberspace," Neil Kleinman speaks a lot about copyright and how it should be used for information posted on the web. He focuses mainly on intellectual ideas and writings in this chapter, but something he left out was the use of other media such as videos and music online. Copyright on videos and music became big with the introduction of youtube, so perhaps the reason he left this out was that youtube had not been created yet. I feel that the copyright laws on youtube seem a bit too strict. When I was younger me and a bunch of friends used to skateboard and make videos using programs such as imovie or windows movie maker. When making these videos we would use certain songs to go with the film, but we soon found out that there were a bunch of songs that we could not use. There have been instances where our videos were taken down from youtube for containing copyrighted material, which seems a but ridiculous to me because we just made these videos for fun. I believe that videos like this, made just for entertainment and not marketing, should be allowed to include whatever material necessary to make a good video, including copyrighted material. Now, if the video was made for marketing purposes I would say they have the right to take it down if it contains copyrighted material, but only for that purpose. I think that youtube should loosen up a bit and revise their policy regarding copyrighted material.