Copyright is a form of protection provided to the authors of original work. It can be easily understand as non plagiarism, like what we encounter while doing our assignments in the sense that the idea or sources that we get from others have to be quoted or cited with the acknowledge to the owner, we can’t just steal it and treat it as our own source of work and idea, it is not fair to the owner. Nowadays, most people search for journals and books from google scholar and google library project as people tend to be lazy to borrow books from the library. The technology advancement and creation of internet has allowed people to search for any information they want as easy as fast just through online. I personally have been using google scholar and online universities library whenever I do my assignment and homework, it is very useful to my study life as a lot ideas and information can be found with just a click and I did cite the ideas that I stole and sources that I copied to give an acknowledge to the author.
With the advancement of internet, it is much easier and less noticeable when you copy books in soft copy. However, if big company do so, their mistakes will be widely notice and get sued immediate. Such as in the article of ‘Google reaches Library Project settlement in court case with publishers’, a copyright problem is occurred to Google company as they copied other universities online library sources and make it part of their library sources, providing it free to access for everyone. This created the anger towards publishers that are involved as it affected their business through the violation of copyright. Copyright is a law to control and restrict people from plagiarising the work of the creator. In the end, the settlement is solved where google is still allow to go on with their Library project but only provide viewing for certain parts of the online book. In conclusion, it is easy to just copy other people’s work without thinking how much time and effort people had actually spent in doing that. Thus we should support original or to give a acknowledge to the author if we cited their ideas to show respect towards their work.
Reference:
http://www.piperpat.com/IPInformation/Introduction/WhatisCopyright/tabid/92/Default.aspx
Harris, P 2012, ‘Google reaches Library Project settlement in court case with publishers’, theguardian, 4 October, viewed 8 November2012, < http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/oct/04/google-library-project-settlement-court-case-publishers >
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