Copyright?

What is copyright? 


-The exclusive legal right, given to an originator or an assignee to print, publish, perform, film, or record literary, artistic, or musical material, and to authorize others to do the same.

In the society and around the world, everything that created by someone, there automatic got the copyright, just depends whether the creator want to let others reuse and take over their idea or not. Whenever you see a sign or symbol like above, it had already under copyright. Just like in internet, all the pages or website that you surf and you will see a sign that showing it is under copyright. By the way, of course every creator or the owner of a things do not hope others copy their work and creative but of course still got people still copy illegally. 

In the Free Culture article by Lawrence Lessig, there were some paragraph that saying about the different of copyright in Japan and Americans. Japan is free of copyright and everything are copying by each other but American everything is under copyright rules and of course there were strictly on the matters of copyrights. 

Lawrence Lessig said this,

                          

"I spent four wonderful months in Japan, and I asked this question as often as I could. Perhaps the best account in the end was offered by a friend from a major Japanese law firm. “We don’t have enough lawyers,” he told me one afternoon. There “just aren’t enough resources to prosecute cases like this."

This is what he get when he went to Japan and do some research for copyright in Japan, the friend told him it is because Japan do not have enough lawyer to talk about the copyright. In my opinion, not enough lawyer is not a problem as government can take action for the copyright matters. 

Free culture or not free culture?

Let's talk about what I think for free culture and not free culture.

Advantages of free culture.

- it can let people become more creative by copying others work, as you see in youtube there were a lot of people are singing those singer's song and they change the melody of it as well, from that they made the songs become ore creative and special and also help the song or the original singer create awareness as everyone will know who is the singer of this song.

-other than that, people made original things become more creative and attractive. 

-help to create awareness to the owner and the things that create.

Disadvantages of free culture.

-the owner might feel people is not giving respect to the person

-people will change the meaning of what the owner create as everyone after copying might change the meaning and edit something from the original.

-made the owner do not have privacy on what they did.

These all what I think of whether the country want to be free culture or not free culture. I do not whether you guys agree with it or not. Of course, on certain things we must provide the copyright on it but not everything. Anyway, somehow it is quite confuse to people as free culture will not respect to the owner and the owner is feel sad of what they did, not free culture is people cannot showing out their creative to peoples means that they also got their creative part just that need to copy some of the sources from others. This is the life. Everything got the advantages and disadvantages. At the end, I will suggest everything must got own right as everyone do not hope what they created and let people copy it. 

Guys, please give some comment. Thanks for reading. All of these is what I think of copyright. :)