Yesterday in class, Jason Hardin went over a presentation on copyright laws. A piece of work can only be copyrighted if it is considered to be in tangible form. Copyright allows the owner to take full responsibility of the distribution of the piece of work. One thing that I didn’t fully understand until yesterday is that copyright deals completely with financial aspect of an artist’s work, which basically ensures that the owner of the piece can benefit from whatever it is they produced. Some people, like myself, might make the mistake to consider plagiarism to be a copyright infringement. However this isn’t the case because as I stated before copyright deals with the financial institution, whereas, plagiarism is considered a moral and academic issue. Copyright was introduced in 1790 when it was drafted into the Constitution of the United States. One issue that has become very controversial is the issue of illegal downloading. The reason for the controversy is that the artist of the download experiences financial loss when people download illegally. This is the reason that illegal downloading is considered to be a copyright infringement because the downloader receives the artist’s work without getting the permission of the artist and without compensating the owner of the work. This is ethically immoral because if everyone downloads illegally then the owner will experience a significant financial loss.
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Good job differentiating between "copyright" and "plagiarism."
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