Friday, May 11, 2007

Essay: Copyright: To Be or Not to Be



Copyright, literally the right to copy an original creation, is a set of legal rights controlling the use of a production, an idea, or information (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/copyright). At first glance, it seems that copyright is as worthy as women's rights to struggle for achieving! But in another view, it is limiting to struggle for preventing! Thus, copyright is a coin with tow sides and it has its own pros and cons.


The advantages of copyright can be regarded as economical and social. It is economically beneficial because by reserving the rights of a producer, there would be no black markets, no dealers, and no bankruptcies at the end! In my opinion, the social aspects of copyright are even more valuable. As an explanation, the temptation of plagiarism would be eradicated and the moral values of the society would have a chance to blossom again. Moreover, people can always use the highest quality of goods, products, services, and even thoughts!


Copyright has some disadvantages that frankly can not be denied. For instance, it limits the availability of the products. The users can not easily have the craving for copyright productions. In addition, they must pay more and also they must spend more time asking various kinds of permission.


I think that the scale of copyright's advantages is heavier than its scale of disadvantages. Though copyright's disadvantages limit the users, its advantages value the producer. If the users put themselves in the producers' shoes, they would dedicate copyright with the highest regards to them who have worked, endeavored, and sweated to obtain their own achievements. It should not be forgotten that maybe the user of today will be the producer of tomorrow!!!


In the hope of becoming the producers of tomorrow, the users should cope with copyright to have its advantages in the near future. I believe that being a producer just for one time is enough to convince the user to accept copyright heartily. So, the best way to persuade the copyright's opponents is to make them produce something (even like writing such an essay) to take its advantages by themselves. When they experience copyright in this way, definitely they let it be!





By Parisa Mehran

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Dear Parisa! You've really done an interesting job. i hope you great success and your future just as you have described it.