In the lecture, copyright was defined as being created to ensure that creators are recognised for their work and recieved recompense. With the internet I believe this is impossible. The internet is known as the information highway for a reason. There is too much information being transfered between users. This isn't even taking into account media information like music, podcast, tv shows and films. If it's hard enough to follow through with copyright for mediums which involve text like books or articles then other mediums, especially music, are going to have a huge problem controling piracy and copywrite violation. Between the times of napster, when I was around 12ish, until today, I must've downloaded hundreds and hundreds if not thousands of copyright protected material. Thats mainly music but also movies and tv shows. Ive noticed how in recent times the market for pirated movies has gotten a lot bigger. Even back at school I dont remember hearing a lot about downloaded movies and such but these days its common to see the same copy of a pirated movie being passed and copied around Castle St. This is just more and more proof of how copyright isn't going to work with the internet besides the massive infringement of copyright laws taking place.
Creative commons is a good idea I thought but maybe not a practical one. An author or artist sharing his or her creativity is a noble thing, it can allow others to use, learn from and be inspired by. Though authors and artists aren't really being given many options. They would still be protected but because they can decide what it can be used for gives them a bit more control over their creation compared to copyright. One question I have is why users would actually go for it. Implementing a code of ethics would only make it obligatory for users to not download music or movies etc. There might be a slight drop in the amount of copyrighted downloads but there would still be a massive community online who would continue to find ways to illegally share files.
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