The Importance Of Copyright And Intellectual Property

Imagine if you will, you just finished reading an amazing article and want to share it with your colleagues, you copy a section and send it out in an email. Did you just commit copyright infringement? Did you just violate someone’s rights as the creator of that intellectual property? To better understand what copyright is you must first understand the difference between copyright, public domain and fair use. Another important aspect to the copyright debate is the definition of intellectual property. When someone creates or originates a piece of work or materials, it is considered to be copyrighted by that individual and cannot be used, adapted, copied or published without the creator’s permission. In the computing world, according to Bowles (2013), data is also known as intellectual property. Even though there are copyright laws which aim to protect intellectual property, when there are not enforced, intellectual property is

When comparing Introduction to Computer Literacy and Best Practices in Protecting and Enforcing Trademarks, Copyrights, and Other Intellectual Property Rights, I notice that the authors used a lot of terminology to express why the need of copyrights are important and how they are used. Both publications covered the basis of copyright laws and an ideal outlook if these laws were followed closely and enforced regularly. However, these are in contrast to, Rethinking Intellectual Property, where the author focused on the need for improvement to the current laws and used other publications to support claims and provide real life examples. Overall, there is an importance for the improvement and stricter enforcement of the copyright laws along with getting awareness out to those who want to protect their intellectual