Response: Amy's Intellectual Property

In response to Amy’s piece on intellectual property, she proves a valid point that while copyright laws are completely necessary in order to protect the work of individuals, it is important to make concessions to these laws. For instance, education purposes allow individuals to quote the work of others as long as it is cited correctly giving the author credit. This idea should hold true for only educational purposes in my opinion. If taken into a larger context, I do not think it would be fair for a singer to take lyrics from any other singer’s song and quote them in some fashion. I feel that in this case the singer should have to get written permission from the other singer. In all, I think that the citing example should hold true as long as money is not being made. Most companies would want to infringe on a patent to make money, and for no other reason. Sure, they could say that they wanted to make a particular drug better for the people, but at the end of the day that company is still racking in revenue of some sort.