Copyright and Sharing
Channel: Daily Insight
Date: 04/06/2017

Ideally, we should live in a world which harbours sharing. It’s strange, we encourage children to share their toys and food with one another, but as soon as we become adults and enter the corporate world, sharing is suddenly considered a big no-no. Copyright laws are made to protect the rich. If I decide to share some software produced by my company with another company, I would almost definitely lose my job and possibly even be sued. If I decide to buy a CD and then copy and share it with my friends, the music industry would love to get a settlement out of me. Of course, copyright ultimately comes down to one thing – greed. In the past, travelling musicians would go around singing songs they had learnt from others, earning money as they went. Nobody would hunt them down and demand reparations for the illegal use of their music. However, in our modern world, we do just that. We don’t like people using our creative works without payment or permission. This attitude results in greedy corporations, hefty lawsuits, and the abuse of innocent people (for example parents who get sued because their son downloaded a song).

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