Friday, April 27, 2007

Copyright?!


What is the copyright? According to definition of copyright in dictionary, if a person or an organization holds the copyright on a piece of writing, music, etc. they are the only people who have the legal right to publish, broadcast, perform it etc. and other people must ask their permission to use it or any part of it. It seams it is a justice right for people who are thoughtful, creative and effective. In other word, they work hard and spend much more time on the works. Some of the works are part of the creator’s life and they suffer from a pain for many years. They should be supported by their works. Sometimes somebody who copies their works without permission hurts the origin of the works and the owner. In another words it is a kind of theft if the copy is without the name of creator, writer, singer or performer.
Copyright is a kind of legal supporting for all the literary, scientific and artistic works and for people who create them. I think it is respect for literature, science and art. Copyright helps to protection ideas, opinions and thoughts. Illegal copy is related to terms supply and demand. In related to this matter like other issues, there is some opportunity for brokers that just look for their benefits and do that without permission. In the other side, a lot of applicants can get them easily with low price. For example some students in universities can't afford the expenses of the original books. As an advantage for the users they can get the copied works easier than originals in many places with lower price. But the benefit of those works doesn’t belong to real owners.
Consequently, if there will be a legal organization that supports the makers during in their working and after the end of the work both financial and spiritual. This organization can publish or copy their works with high quality and lower price. This organization distributes them in many places for real applications. All the works can be more available in different branches of this organization especially in universities. At the same time it is better to prevent from the illegal copying that some offenders do. Of course, it takes a long time that the majorities of people get exact information about copyright and accept and consider it. It needs some association of cultural and legislative authorities.

1 comment:

Parisa Mehran said...

Dear Mrs. Rezai,

Your blog is nice. I enjoyed it. You have always encouraged me like a sympathetic mom and now it is my turn to motivate you to keep up your work.

Best luck,

Parisa (your little girl)