Copying is right or Copying is Wrong? An ambiguous title indeed. It can be right or wrong depending on the situation. Different people have different opinions regarding copying. Looking into a reading written & researched by author John W. Snapper on the topic of "On the Web, Plagiarism Matters More Than Copyright Policy" has stated his opinions regarding copying or one can say that Snapper has identified and break down copying in two simpler forms known today very well Piracy and Plagiarism.
In this particular reading, Snapper has reviewed over the past and compared to today's modern technology which had made copying easier. In fact with this particular media today, the 'Internet' which is heavily used by millions of people around the world could just copy anything of the information provided in the world wide web. As discussed in class on last Wednesday's DIGC202 lecture, apart of the information shared in this particular lecture, there are a group of people find that copying is an acceptable behavior. This can be seen as a huge market in this particular country China, which imitate the product designs of other established companies such as Apple, Crocs, Motorola, Adidas and many more then selling it as their own with few minor twigs to the particular product.
With technology today, is so easy to copy as mention earlier. Above images are example of product imitations from China with minor twigs as stated earlier. According to Snapper, The above following will considered as piracy, because as explained by Snapper, this particular creators of this products wouldn't have permission from the Original companies to edit or change the product and even if they did, the proper logo or brand is not there or there is no recognition towards the original brands. However, Piracy isn't still as bad compared to one who plagiarize another person's work and claiming it as their own personal work. This is the point which I believe to be an inhumane act or something which is immoral of value. Definitely is wrong to just take other's work and claiming it as one's own personally. Because, the effort of others which they work so hard to get the idea and research done, then coming up with all the detail is then stolen by another person who just uses a typical method of copying and with internet today the function button is just two buttons away and two step away, CTRL + C & CTRL+V. Then VOILA! the work of one is complete, without effort, without hardships.
To an extent copying doesn't necessary is all wrong, but can be right as well. Relating to a topic that is about to be discussed in the next class which is Convergence. It talks of the idea of people tend to accept things to be right, if everyone is doing it. In relation to this point of copying, meaning copying could be a right thing to do? Such as the way things are happening in China now that they are imitating products all over the world and eventually more companies in China are opening that does this particular product imitations. In relation to the overall view, is really hard to say that copying can be wrong thing to do because there are already people whom are into the copying business such as the ones in China. Thus, if everyone slowly starts to copy one another, it will become an acceptable thing in society in fact when we look at China today in our own set mind of views, we do know that China is copying products from all over the world. However, how come they are allowing this particular group of people to do so? Is it because of is China? or is it because of the establishment stereotypical mindset that only China can copy other people's work because they have been doing it for over a long period of years.
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To an extent copying doesn't necessary is all wrong, but can be right as well. Relating to a topic that is about to be discussed in the next class which is Convergence. It talks of the idea of people tend to accept things to be right, if everyone is doing it. In relation to this point of copying, meaning copying could be a right thing to do? Such as the way things are happening in China now that they are imitating products all over the world and eventually more companies in China are opening that does this particular product imitations. In relation to the overall view, is really hard to say that copying can be wrong thing to do because there are already people whom are into the copying business such as the ones in China. Thus, if everyone slowly starts to copy one another, it will become an acceptable thing in society in fact when we look at China today in our own set mind of views, we do know that China is copying products from all over the world. However, how come they are allowing this particular group of people to do so? Is it because of is China? or is it because of the establishment stereotypical mindset that only China can copy other people's work because they have been doing it for over a long period of years.
