The Pros And Cons Of Intellectual Property Rights

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Intellectual property rights have made a huge amount of headway towards stopping the illegal things going on, but also have a very long way to go. I believe there will be many more laws and acts to attempt to control especially copyright problems. With the constant growth of technology and equipment it will get harder and harder to completely stop this problem and it will be much more about controlling it. As Tech America says, “Updating copyright and intellectual property laws to meet the challenges of the networked environment has been a key focus for congress.” This shows congress is currently working on revisions and amendments to help the growing problem while having the advanced technology. Severin de Witt, who published, ”challenges in public and private domain will shape the future of intellectual property” in the Law of Future Series, talks about how we must do something for the common people or inventor to …show more content…

With websites such as youtube.com, facebook.com and instargram.com, people have been able to share more with each other than ever before. Scenes from movies, music clips and other copyrighted materials are being shared every day. We saw it once in 2012 when the US government tried to pass two new acts. Stop Online Piracy Act and Protect IP Act. With these two acts in the US government was trying to enforce enhanced copyright infringement laws that would have protected copyrighted work more, but also restrict the online freedom of speech that the internet has allowed people to have since the internet has been available. Large websites like google.com, Wikipedia.com and reddit.com, along with 115,000 other websites essentially shut down for one day in protest against these bills. With the support of millions of online users and the ability to share this knowledge, the bills were not

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