Copy and paste, Rip and share

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In the article, J.K Rowling wins the court against a fan that violated her copyright with his plan to publish ‘Potter encyclopaedia’. J.K Rowling argued that her 17 years of hard work writing the story was literally robbed by a person. The people who infringement copyright argues that he just expand the term used in the books. That person’s particular ‘Potter encyclopaedia’ was also known as ‘Harry Potter Lexicon’.

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According to Reep (2006, pp.41) defines copyright as "the legal protection for the creators of original works". Infringement is a serious crime in today’s society because refers to the violation of a law or intellectual property right of an individual or entity company (Mirandah, 2009). One’s hard work stolen from other people are inconsiderate hence due to the emergence of technology, anybody at anywhere and anytime can easily ‘helped’ mankind to ‘copy and paste’ to another place.

On top of that, every lecturer stress out saying that plagiarism can be ugly, plagiarism can make someone expelled from school because such act is disrespectful to the original author. Therefore as a student, every work academic work that we write must always remember to insert references as an acknowledgement.

Let’s move to the music industries. The emergence of technology once again ‘did its magic’. In Jone’s article stated that RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) requests for a summary judgement against a couple who burn songs from CDs and downloaded file-sharing programs. It is true that music copyright infringement could be illegal however the judge for this case argued that the defendant only contribute to copyright infringement, the couple did not put files into shared folder and someone copied from them.

According to Hom (2006) copyright infringement could mean as using someone else’s work without that person’s consent in a tangible form such as songs, web page, pictures and videos are illegal. Not just in print, but as well as other things can be legally sued if one did not take notice.

To me, first of all serve the person who infringe J.K Rowling’s work, it’s bad and disrespectful. However for the music copyright, I am on the fence right now because 1) writers lose a lot which is bad and 2) many communities don’t have to waste money buying songs.

References

1. Hom, D 2006, Plagarism and Copyright Infringement: Is Copying Illegal?, Plagiarism Checke, viewed 10 June, <http://www.plagiarismchecker.com/plagiarism-vs-copyright.php>.

2. Jone, KC 2008, Judge rejects RIAA’s Music copyright Infringement, Distribution Claims, Information Week, viewed 10 June, <http://www.informationweek.com/news/personal_tech/music/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207403664>.

3. Mirandah, P 2007, Infringement Advice, PMC Connecting Asia, viewed 10 June, < http://www.mirandah.com/Infringement_Advice.aspx>.

4. Reep, DC 2006, Technical Writing: Principles, Strategies, and Readings, 6th edn, Pearson Education, USA.