Robert Christopher Knight (born 1973/1974) is a blogger and filmmaker based in Greenville, South Carolina who received much attention for a video he uploaded to YouTube and a subsequent copyright infringement clash with Viacom.

The incident has since gone on to be cited in numerous legal writings and court cases involving digital copyright and the interests of corporations versus independent content producers.

[2] Knight ran for one of five new at-large seats on the Rockingham County, North Carolina Board of Education in 2006,[1] and self-produced a series of television commercials for his campaign.

The second half of the commercial features Knight wielding a blue-bladed lightsaber, describing how he is a "fiscal conservative" who wants more local control over the county's schools.

Over the next several months, Knight's commercial was screened at the American Film Institute, and was featured on The Heritage Foundation's website[6] and in many other media outlets including The Jay Leno Show, The Soup, on MTV and numerous international programming.

Viacom countered that the Web Junk 20 clip was indeed its own copyrighted material, acknowledging that although it used the commercial that Knight had produced himself, that VH1 had added Aries Spears's image and commentary.

After the story gained considerable press coverage, Viacom relented,[8] and YouTube reinstated Knight's clip of Web Junk 20 featuring his campaign commercial.