The Blues of plagiarism
All creative works such as books, music, and movies, are entitled to an intellectual property protection. The type of protection it qualifies for is based on the type of creative work developed. “Music, film, publishing, and software company industries live by copyright” (Vaidhyanathan 227). Copyright is a type of intellectual property protection for produced works. Music artists get their work copyrighted to protect their work under their name, to prevent their song, lyrics, and beats of their music, from being stolen. Many song artists have been sued for plagiarizing someone else’s work. This is very common in the music industry. It is not fair for an artist to lose profit from his or her own original work, …show more content…
The internet world around us is steadily increasing. Music is becoming easier and easier to acquire without pay. It isn’t the easiest thing to track down everyone who is illegally downloading music, but now-a-days almost everyone is doing it. This isn’t violating copyright if the party isn’t selling the music under their name, or changing the music/creating the music similar as their own. However, artists can still lose profit from this. Many consumers would rather download music online or through an app for free than go to the store to buy a CD for $14.99. It isn’t fair to the Artist that the consumers aren’t buying from them instead. “We live in an ecosystem which all stakeholders in the content economy have a fair share. There is a growing imbalance of power and resources between traditional content creators and those who provide links to the material” (Osnos 211). “Since Napster broke into the news in 2000, journalists have been scrambling to keep up with the fast-moving and complicated stories of content protection, distribution, and revision that make up the wide array of copyright conflicts” (Vaidhyanathan 225). Napster was originally a ‘peer-to-peer’ file sharing Internet service that shared music audio files. “Peer-to-peer file sharing still remains strong as does the music industry” (Vaidhyanathan 225). While people still download music for free, the music industry is still just as strong. However, if the consumers are true fans of the artist’s work, they should be loyal enough to buy their music; it is only fair to the
All creative works such as books, music, and movies, are entitled to an intellectual property protection. The type of protection it qualifies for is based on the type of creative work developed. “Music, film, publishing, and software company industries live by copyright” (Vaidhyanathan 227). Copyright is a type of intellectual property protection for produced works. Music artists get their work copyrighted to protect their work under their name, to prevent their song, lyrics, and beats of their music, from being stolen. Many song artists have been sued for plagiarizing someone else’s work. This is very common in the music industry. It is not fair for an artist to lose profit from his or her own original work, …show more content…
The internet world around us is steadily increasing. Music is becoming easier and easier to acquire without pay. It isn’t the easiest thing to track down everyone who is illegally downloading music, but now-a-days almost everyone is doing it. This isn’t violating copyright if the party isn’t selling the music under their name, or changing the music/creating the music similar as their own. However, artists can still lose profit from this. Many consumers would rather download music online or through an app for free than go to the store to buy a CD for $14.99. It isn’t fair to the Artist that the consumers aren’t buying from them instead. “We live in an ecosystem which all stakeholders in the content economy have a fair share. There is a growing imbalance of power and resources between traditional content creators and those who provide links to the material” (Osnos 211). “Since Napster broke into the news in 2000, journalists have been scrambling to keep up with the fast-moving and complicated stories of content protection, distribution, and revision that make up the wide array of copyright conflicts” (Vaidhyanathan 225). Napster was originally a ‘peer-to-peer’ file sharing Internet service that shared music audio files. “Peer-to-peer file sharing still remains strong as does the music industry” (Vaidhyanathan 225). While people still download music for free, the music industry is still just as strong. However, if the consumers are true fans of the artist’s work, they should be loyal enough to buy their music; it is only fair to the