Copyright is an Intellectual Property Law that grants creators the right to distribute and commercially exploit their work.
It is argued that, without copyright, people would have no financial incentive to create, which would jeopardise the cultural well of the world. However, even if fairly recent, the laws of copyright have not developed and evolved within the same pace as technology and some fear that it actually hinders creators, especially the amateur and independent.
On the other side of the debate, are those who believe the Copyright laws have enough provisions to make it flexible enough to allow for fair sharing, distribution and building upon existing works.
Due to its fairly outdated nature, in the past years, other types of work protection have been developed in order to give creators a larger degree of flexibility when it comes to sharing, lending and licensing their work such as the Creative Commons license, the Open Source Movement and Copyleft.
Hi there, Interesting topic, I totally believe in copyrights issues faced by creators, on the other hand, creative commons did a good job in creating a license and sharing works based on the permission from the creator this type of function at least doesn’t let others end users to use unless it’s permitted. I think work protection is really tomorrow in the design process because some ideas do come out from nowhere.
Important subject. Although I don’t support illegal downloads I do believe that laws that surround copyrights must find a common place between nations in a more simple way to follow the fast speed of tech. Netflix’s lack of content in places like Germany is one of the many symptoms that erupt across digital content distribution, just to give an example.