[cisb102sp04] CISB 102 lesson 3 question 6

  • From: LaNita Campbell <nitacprn@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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  • Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 19:50:20 -0500

 Question 6
Copyright Act
    The concept of Copyright and its protection in the United States is
probably what separated communist China and the democratic United States. In
order for the Chinese to become a member of the World Trade Organization
theyhad to institute copyright protection laws. Prior to September 15 2004
they didn't understand the concept of people being able to make money from
anoriginal idea or creation.http://www.china.org.cn/english/China/39681.htm
They believed it belongs to the "state" while in the United States
Constitution authors and inventors are granted exclusive right to their
"writings and discoveries."1 It is our capitalistic belief that a person
onlyhas himself and his skills to sell in the market place to make a living,
therefore a persons ideas and discoveries are the labors that are worth
moneyand should be protected from intellectual thieves. "The Fair Use
Harbor"website http//www.stfrancis.edu/cid/copyrightbay was developed for
theuse of educators to know if they are fairly using others works in a fair
manner, i.e., as educational material and not as "Kinkos" discovered in the
early 1980s as a means to make money off the labors of another [course
packets were being put together by professors for their students to use,
Kinkos made the copies of these materials and sold them to the students thus
making a profit...it cost them $80 million]. Recently we've had big
copyrightlegal cases regarding the music industry and Napster (a company
thatcreated a means for people to download music without paying for it). 
It's imperative that copyright laws be diligently protected.
1. Fred T. Hofstetter. Internet Literacy, Third Edition, "Societal Issues".
The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. New York, NY, 2003. p. 334.
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