Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Choking Creativity

In a recently viewed TED Talk,the topic of copyright infringement was brought up. Many young people today use images, videos, and other stock gathered from the internet. Using these images, they create their own works combining different elements of computer design. Copyright laws are being thoroughly investigated because reworking images gathered from online sources has disrupted the original owners. I think that as long as the reworked image is not used for profit there is no wrong doing. If using another person's image is illegal, should all high school students using google images to decorate their chem class presentation board be fined? Isn't the whole purpose of the internet to provide a wealth of free information to the general public? If a person does not want anyone to borrow their work, they shouldn't put it on the internet.

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