Copyright is away from what it should be

     I read two articles about copyright. These two articles represent the two completely opposite opinion about the function of copyright. One says that copyright is well-doing in promoting the science and technology to evolute. The other, says that the copyright's law is not working in the wrong way and its extreme control is not necessary. From my opinion, I agree with the second one, I think copyright is away from its original job and not helping develop our society.

     First of all, the author mentioned that the amount of organized crime has been increased and the government developed the law of protecting the rights of the creators. It seems that there are more and more peer to peer piracy happened in the past ten years. Many experts claims that the right of creators are being impinged, it is unfair to their creativity. In order to promote the science and culture. The government makes the creators feel their inventions are worth and meaningful. So the copyright's law is becoming more and more powerful. But actually, this also produce other important problem. And to our surprise, this problem is about the creativity, which is regarded as the things we protect well.

     In a video called “Everything is remix”, which shows people a creative action is divided into three parts: copy, transform and combine. The idea of that movie is warning people that every creativity need the original things to transform and combine. We are not just copying directly and we are inspired by each other. On the other hand, does the copyright's law really protect creator's right? I definitely doubt that. Even though many creators won their lawsuits, they still did not get anything from this. The money went into others' pockets, especially the companies and lawyers. What's more, the society is blaming the children that they get use of many things online without the copyright, they do not respect the creators enough. But I think that is a action of killing the creativity of kids. They get information from the products of others and have their own ideas or views of that. They would think of some thing different from the normal rules and adults. We should impulse them to be creative but not just stay away from other inventions.
     In conclusion, Copyright lose its balance between protecting creators' rights and helping the Science and culture progress. As the creative score of children is going down, we should think about how to promote our creativity in a appropriate way, and recognize the real function of copyrights.

Lessig, Lawrence. “Prosecuting Online File Sharing Turns a Generation Criminal.” Editorial.

U.S News. N.p., 22 Dec. 2008. Web. 23 Feb. 2012. <http://www.usnews.com/‌opinion/‌articles/‌2008/‌12/‌22/‌prosecuting-online-file-sharing-turns-a-generation-criminal>.