Sunday, November 2, 2008

Intellectual Property

“ There are special laws about the theft of automobiles, planes, and boats. There are no special laws about the theft of skyscrapers. Cars, planes, and boats need protection. Skyscrapers pretty much take care of themselves”(Lessig, 170). Based on the statement, there are a few reasons why these thing need to be protected and defended.
In this global, there are many things that being protected from being thieving unlawfully. This is a must because it is essential to preserve the intellectual property of something that has been created since the development and creation of intellectual property objects is time consuming and high-priced. Even though there are a few individuals feel that trying to preserve intellectual property protection is a fruitless and mistaken effort, they are absolutely wrong by the way they are thinking. This thought is absolutely wrong as well as amiss. Nowadays, these intellectual property objects can be protected and saved under exclusive right, named copyright laws. These laws, with different ways and varieties of method, protect work from being reproduced without the permission of the copyright holder. It also gives authors exclusive rights in their works, especially the right to make copies. Notwithstanding, the copyright protection has certain boundaries believed to be in the public concern, one such boundary is like a permit that enables a person to quote a small segment from original documents for effective purpose, mostly for educations and researches, not for making profit. Therefore, copyright law is necessary to enable the owners of the work to control who can make copy and also to share their creativities with others.

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