Hybrid Assignment 03
The creation of copyright was intended to protect the original products of a person. It was made to prevent the usage and sharing of the product without notice, consent or payment for product. Due to the rise of digital media and its advancements, copyrights are becoming difficult. Focusing on a more artistic aspect, it is challenging for the creator to rely on a copyright because of how easy it is to duplicate ones work, change it, and share it digitally.
“The minute a film is released or an essay is published, it begins to race around the Internet, passed through peer-to-peer networks, posted on personal Web sites, quoted in social media streams. In one sense, therefore, any ownership claim is essentially fanciful, since, in practice, people’s creations circulate in ways they cannot control”(145). Once something is posted on the Internet, in a way, it doesn’t belong to that person anymore. It is widely and immediately shared, whether the creator wants it to be or not. After that decision is made to post, there really isn’t a way to hold onto it and not expect there to be changes made or viewed without cost. As soon as that idea is out there, it is then possible for everyone to make what he or she wants of it. They can now tweak it, in the slightest way, that it isn’t the original person’s idea anymore. Nothing is original anymore; everything we have seen or heard has been developed from someone else’s idea. It’s a constant cycle.
Do the problems and challenges with copyrighting and digital media mostly pertain to those who need copyrights most, those who spent thousands of dollars and/or years on their creation only to not get that money back or see a small profit or to those are more fortunate because they are well-known and have the money and time to spend?
