Copyright and Piracy University of the People Introduction: Getting into a profession, which if you are good at comes with a lot of power over unsuspecting people, an individual can go crazy drunk with power to be able to control people’s lives. Well, I’ve chosen that profession and I know that I’m quite good at it, so it is important for me to know my own boundaries, so does every other individual who can hack. It is a scary little world out there. Why copyright laws are important? Before knowing why it is important, we need to know what it is. What is copyright? Copyright is a law under United States (title 17, U.S. Code), which protects the original intellectual property of its creator. Contrary to common perception copyright can …show more content…
The creator of an original work, be it in any field, and having registered it with the concerned authority (how else would anyone know who created what?) because the copyright law says: published or unpublished. It is something to think about. I personally will go with having registered at the right places. Ok in continuation of what we started, in addition to the original creator it can also be owned by individuals who helped in the creation of an intellectual property, by way of co-creating or aiding the creation. Copyright laws give the creator the total and rightful control of their work, in terms of where it can be published, who can replicate it, how much can be replicated, etc. Now coming back to why copyright laws are important: A. It protects original …show more content…
But now the dictionary also defines another use of piracy: “unauthorized use or reproduction of another 's work.” Why copying software and other resources is piracy? What else would we call it? Careful and thoughtful replication of original work? As far as I understand unauthorized copying is cheating, which tantamount to stealing if they are taking something away from the originator forcefully. That is the whole purview of piracy. If copying software’s and other resources were an ok thing to do, then everyone would have an iPhone or a Samsung. Instead what is happening now is people who can’t afford an iPhone have a Pineapple, literally. What piracy shows us is that if there were no such laws as copyright then the world would not have strived to better themselves. We as a world would be stagnant and evolution would be a thing of dreams. Which way would I lean? I consider myself a businessman more than a computer scientist, for the simple reason that scientists come with undeniable intelligence and unbreakable commitment. If I called myself a scientist I would be putting my own self under a lot of pressure. But I am hardworking and am prepared to do good things but will do that from the business point of