Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Legal and Ethical Issues

Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that enables the sharing and use of creativity and knowledge through free legal tools. Basically it is a copyright tool that allows users to share their creativity and knowledge with other people, but also preventing illegal use of your work. For example, selling your work.

I think information like TV, movies and musics SHOULD NOT be free. The movie companies spend months and million of dollars to produce a movie. If it is free to the public, the company wouldn't make any profit. Eventually, the movie industry will fall. Same with the music and TV industries. Although nowadays many people downloading free movies and music from the internet illegally, some people are willing to pay to see a movie or purchase a music CD. 

I think entertainment shouldn't be free, but educational materials should be free. For example, in the reading Open source textbook program expanding in coming months talks about open source texts are compiled using copyright-free materials from a wide variety of sources and can be edited and updated immediately. With the open source textbook program, students will spend lesser money to achieve a higher education.

3 comments:

  1. Yes. While many people are downloading movies and music for free, there are still some who enjoys purchasing a music CD or movies for collection.

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  2. evetuanally everything will be free because we will find ways to get everything for free

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  3. I think that entertainment will become much cheaper in coming years becuase people wont be purchasing them anymore so the companies will have to lower the price. Some things are ridiculously expensive.

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