Copyright: A Dirty Word
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Copyright – A Dirty Word
Alicia Atwood
Copyright A Dirty Word
Alicia Atwood
What exactly is the problem?
Brett Gaylor
“Copyright is out of control. It's been generated for profit at everyone's expense.”
Society needs to understand that copyright has gotten out of hand and threatens America’s
moral foundations.
“Copyright is the use or reuse of words or ideas without permission.”
Laura J. Murray
Why is this a problem?
Problem 1Society has to ask permission to criticize culture
and therefore has fewer available works.
Brett Gaylor
"Why should we have to ask culture to let us critique it?"
Problem 2Innovation, renovation, and expression
are suppressed.
Brett Gaylor“Culture builds from the past.”
The people who hold copyrights used someone else's work before, but they
beat everyone else to make it law, so no one else can do what they did.
Jay David Bolter
"One consequence of this networking of culture is in fact the abandonment of the ideal high
culture as a unifying force."
However…
In Brazil, copyright laws are inconsequential and the culture builds upon older works found
through the advanced networks, bringing this society together through this higher new
purpose for culture and art.
The ConfusionPlagiarism can be connected with copyright,
when it is something entirely different.
“Plagiarism is the use or reuse of words or ideas without acknowledgement.”
Laura J. Murray
Truth 1Plagiarism stunts creativity and expression in a
society by allowing people to copy verbatim instead of creating or modifying another work
for a new meaning.
Paul Gauguin“Art is either plagiarism or revolution.”
Truth 2Plagiarism is not bad because it involves
copyright infringement, but because it is a lie.
So what?Society should be careful not to plagiarize and become unable to think for themselves, but not fall into the bondage of copyright laws and be
unable to think at all.
Laura J. Murray
“Even in the world of copyright, we have a right to repeat people’s words in order
to hold them accountable, bring them into dialogue, or use them as a springboard.”