Since 1700 the copyright has been around, Grey also tells us in his video the law has became more strict. Creator’s works being protected by copyright laws, until after they pass away. The question is if these laws are restricting us from being truly naturally creative, are they choking creativity? Lessig talks very passionately, mentioning our children are being effected the most by these strict unfair copyright laws. Disney and other corporatioms protect their works. Disney however has played a big role in lobbying to extend certain copyright laws. Copy Right Term Extension Act has also been nick named Mickey Mouse Protection Act, because of Disney’s involment to extend copyright laws. After viewing Fadens’ s video I searched Wikipedia for Disney and copyrights and found out corporations’ creative works have the longest copyright laws. Even readimg Center for Social Media’s document shows how much concern educators have to not break any copyrigjt laws. Which leads me to think if our creative rights, are being hindered.
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Yes in fact I believe some laws that are being passed down now a days are a unfair to the people. Most of the laws that are being passed down are done without our consent, such as copyright law. Who comes up with an idea and should feel like they are the only ones that can come up with it, and no one can touch that. These unfair rules are giving us, the people, a limit to creative ideas just because they think they came up with it first . No one should tell us what we can or cannot create, regarding our ideas.
This copy right thing is a big issue. New laws are definitely being passed everyday and we dont even keep up to date with it. People should be credited the proper way , but at the same time, you cannot tell someone they cant copy their idea. Ideas come from the mind, and it is definitely possible that two people came up with the same idea. That should not be considered as copyright. An example can be Youtube. Youtube is definitely one of the biggest concerns about people using other artists songs to create their own videos. That is unfair and in situations like that, that is copyrighting.