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.

“Copyrightis 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.

Why should we have toaskcultureto let us critique it?

Problem 2

Innovation, 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.”