This Tuesday, we had a talk with Mr. Jason Hardin about copyright and how to avoid copyright infringement. It is truly a lesson with so many original things dominating my mind. It is the first time I have ever used "Turning Point", the software that I found in a computer in the Coates Library later on. And also It is the first time I have been fully aware that something I did in the past was illegal, but lucky me, I was not in the US.
Personally, copyright is the term I have barely heard of before. In my homeland, the idea of copy-right is not so widespread, not to mention that someone can be totally ignorant of it.
I have gained much information about US copyright law dated from 1790 which aims to develop the useful contribution of art and sciences to better develop our society. Basically, if authors know that everyone using their products has to pay them a certain amount of money, they will have greater incentives to follow their inspritation. Also, the term of copyright for US published works is now author’s life plus 70 years. I and so many other students wondered about the 70 additional years but then Leslie and Mr. Hardin successfully answered our curiosity. Though this extension as well as the copyright itself is somehow monetary, it does contain "fai use", which allows limited use of copyrighted material free of charge for some purposes such as commentary, criticism, news reporting, research, teaching or scholarship.
Now I know a lot more about it, which also means that I have to be much more careful whenever I involve in making a copy, downloading a song or sharing files with my friends.
Thanks Mr. Hardin, Ms. Belisle and all my classmates for such a helpful class.
COPY RIGHT AND SO MANY UNKNOWN THINGS by HANG BUI is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
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