During my academic career plagiarism and all the copyright red tape just posed as a nuisance. A overly redundant and picky process to cover and protect my work. However, after Jason Hardin’s talk on copyright, I plan on being far more careful not only in the academic realm but also in dealing with the fuzzy line that surrounds file sharing and downloading music. The idea that it is considered a felony if you make more than 10 copies of something off the Internet freaks me out! I thought that it was really interesting that Copyright was first created to enforce individual rights dating back to 1790. And that it was created to promote and protect useful arts and sciences for the newly found America, knowing how important a strong cultural base is for a country. By issuing a Copyright law it also provide economic incentive for those artist and intellectual thinkers to feel confident that their finding would not be compromised or stolen.
CopyWRONG by kemble Maddox is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License.
I definitely agree that copyright laws can just be a nuisance. I hate having to createe works cited and bilbliography pages.
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