Copy right is something that says that a piece of work belongs to one person; this stops other people using the work as their own. Copyright doesn’t last forever it lasts 70 years after the person that owns it has died. A good example of this is the classic books; all of these are cheap and can be published by several different printing companies as the original authors died more than 70 years ago.
This can be easily understood using the three moral rights; the first is the right of attribution this states that the creator of the work has the right to be identified as it, it means that if you do use their work you have to give them the correct acknowledgement for it. Second is the right of integrity this stops you being able to alter anything without the permission of the original creator. Lastly is false attribution, this states that you are notable to take the piece of work and say it is your own.
Copyright is an important thing when it comes to using technology; this is because most things have access to the internet where you can easily find a piece of work. With the interactive media we will face a lot of problems with copy right as it’s inevitable with the kind of work we have decided to do. This could be with images that we want to use on a site or work that we want to use as examples for our own, it is easy enough to make references but it’s easy enough to forget. Also when it comes to using our blogs we have used whatever images we need and also edited some for work we need to do, it’s alright in college but if we go to a work area we will have more problems with copyright than we are used to.
Regarding the topic of downloading people’s products off of sites like pirate bay I’m undecided. It’s simple enough to understand why they are illegal as the companies that originally made the product are losing out on money if people can get it from somewhere else for free. But none of the sites are claiming the work as their own; the original creators are given the rightful acknowledgement as the creators. But soon the companies are going to stop making the application and such because they aren’t making any profit off of it. This will mean that eventually we will have to cope with what we have and nothing new will become available. As a person that is studying interactive media this means that soon there won’t be any jobs for us to go into as the companies won’t make the money from the products that they need to employ people.
Creative commons are a company that deal with issues that arise from copyright, as soon as that thing becomes ours although its copyrighted we might not mind if people want to use it, their main example of this was a base guitarist adding a base over music that didn’t already have one. The group that originally performed the song didn’t mind him doing this and when they met gave him their permission to continue doing so. Due to this he is not affected by the copyright law as he was given the exception, creative commons are trying to make it so people with a copyright can still allow other people to use their work. This is done with different symbols that make it possible to use these works on for different things meaning the main person will still have some control over it.
Personally I believe that we need copyright protection, without it people would be able to more freely plagiarise work that other people have put the effort into making. With copyright protection in place people think twice about what they are doing, also if someone is stealing some else’s work and calling it their own the person that originally did the work in the first place will not bother continuing to do the work if it isn’t recognised at theirs.
This image was found using google images and requested that they find an image for creative commons that had a creative commons licence so that I could redistribute it.
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