I was having a conversation with a group of friends the other day and we were talking about Rhianna's new song ft Drake- What’s my name. We were all singing along to it then my friend logged onto a youtube converter page to download the song onto her mobile phone. As she did that my friend shouted "copyright" as a joke and a conversation from my previous lecture came to mind.
We started talking about how much we actually do take part in copyrighting and if we were to be caught the amount of trouble or fines we would have to pay. We made a list of all the different types of copyrighting we had done. In my list I had
• Taken music off youtube
• Used different songs that were online for my own personal music videos
• Videoed famous people singing and put it on Facebook from my phone
• Watched movies and programmes online
When we got thinking deeply about it we realised how it was so normal for us that we didn’t even realise that we were doing something wrong. Nowadays the way everything is on the internet it makes it so much easier for us to access and asking for permission does not even come to mind.
The majority of things in my list I didn’t personally do as they were there already for me to participate in. Somebody else had infringed copyright laws by uploading the song/video onto youtube/online, but because I watched it or I took the song that they uploaded and put it on my mobile phone I therefore took part in copyright and took advantage because it was online and free for my own personal usage.
From this and my lecture I learnt how copyright is against the law and is basically copying or stealing from other people by taking their work without permission. It can also affect me in a few ways for example if I made a song and people started sharing it without my permission and then made money from it when I made it originally I would not be happy. Also in education terms if people continued copying other peoples work and changing a little bit and then putting it in their own words, if I then went to copy it I may have the wrong information that I put I my work because it was copied. However the law does give some support to allow usage for education that’s why we can use some copies for our own study.
In conclusion copyright is not entirely fair on those who put all their hard work into something. Copyright affects everybody in different ways which is why it should stop. The question is though would it or can it ever stop and come to an final end or is it really that impossible.
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