A Fair(y) Use Tale - Stanford Cut
In response to the movie, I agree with the current copyright laws in that you can't steal others work without their permission to make money, but I don't see any problem with using other peoples work for projects that the new user will be receiving a profit from the copyrighted material. I fact that you can’t copyright an idea makes it hard to say you can’t copyright books, music, plays, etc. If two people have the same idea and both make a play about it and some parts are so similar that one gets accused for breaking copyright laws I think that is a bad law. Also the fact that once you put a copyright into place it is only valid for 14 years contradicts the whole point of having “ownership” of a book, play, piece of music, etc. because after that 14 year period is up you lose all the rights you had to that work. The fact that companies make people renew their copyright is just a way the company can make more money which goes back to one of the main controversies surrounding the copyright law which is the fact that it’s all a big money game and not about the actual material and the moral issues that comes with stealing someone’s work.
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