Friday, October 31, 2008
Intellectual Property
In every aspect of life a person can argue either something to be negative or positive. For example, a dog can be a man’s best friend for one person, but for another a dog could be a man’s worst enemy. For the purpose of this blog, I would like to show why exclusive rights are essential in the creativity of our world today. There are a number of people in this world that labor themselves everyday trying to create new products and services that will make life easier for the average consumer. This enables our country to develop and grow in all ways of life. On the other hand, there are people who create music, literary works, and images which are used to enhance a person’s life through emotion and creativity. Because products or services are in fact intellectual property of those who take time to create them, they are protected by exclusive rights known as copyrights. Copyrights give people of intellectual and creative aptitude an incentive to share their talent with the world around them instead of keeping their creativity to themselves. Also giving the individual the incentive to “share” while being protected, will also give the individual the opportunity to profit off of their talent. The one negative of copyright laws, is some tend to be too long. When this occurs creativity and innovation is decreased a substantial amount thus hindering the potential growth of society as a whole.
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I agree with what you are saying. I think it is very fair to say that copyright laws can be helpful to encourage people to share their ideas. Without copyright laws protecting people's work, there would not be nearly as many inventors or career musicians/artists. Without copyright laws to protect them, inventors would have no reason to invent new things, and would have to find another job to support themselves. We would not have nearly as many convenient inventions and gadgets at our disposal. While almost all musicians and artists would certainly keep making art no matter how much they were paid, copyright laws allow for them to sustain themselves using only their art and therefore allow for them to create more to share with society. I also agree that the abuse of copyright laws can hinder creativity by allowing people to coast off one good idea for the rest of their lives. People who are fine with coasting off one invention are not being helpful to society anymore. In their case, copyright laws are hindering creativity as opposed to supporting it.
I agree with Kevin that copyright laws are very essential to our society. People spend a great amount of time and effort to create their something with their own imagination and that deserves to be protected. Our society would not grow and evolve if people were just allowed to steal the work as others. If they could do that then people would no longer try to create something of their own and new innovations would no longer be made. We have grown so much in so many ways because of this forced competition and it only makes us stronger. This is true whether you look at literature or even just the music industry. What people create within these industries is what changes peoples lives and helps us all grow and change. I agree however that some copyrights are long and limit the potential to grow because it creates road blocks for anyone trying to create something similar to something that has already been made. This can hinder the growth of the society, but I believe that copyrights as a whole are a good thing.
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