Response: Alali's "Intellectual Property"

In response to Alali’s “Intellectual Property,” I feel that she makes a very good point about the Lessig reading and how it relates to human nature. As Alali points out, people are not willing to take initiative and invent if they have no laws protecting them from outsiders stealing their ideas. It is human nature to feel this way about something that a person created. This idea can be directly related to school life of all students. If I do my homework one night and leave it in a locker and someone steals my homework to copy it and turn it in as their own, it is going to upset me. I left the homework in my locker with the assumption that everyone acts honestly and abides by the rules set in place by the school. However, knowing that this is impossible in today’s world, I need some sort of system that helps protect me from someone stealing my homework. This idea is directly related to inventors in the real world. Inventors need laws that are set in place by the government that will prohibit outsiders from stealing a person’s idea or invention. This is common sense in my opinion, why would someone work for free?