On Tuesday morning, Jason Hardin, manager of access services came in and talked about copyright laws and other related issues, like infringement. These are very critical issues that a person needs to be aware of if they want to survive in America. As a non-american, the issue about copyright seemed to be so complicated because I'm not familiar with all the laws, but now I've learned quite a lot about it. Something that struck me and that scared me is the situation of Whitney Harper. She, at the age of 17, unknowingly downloaded songs from Kazaa, later only to find out that she violated certain copyright laws. This shows that downloading free stuff or sharing files is not safe at all, instead it's all tangled up with laws and regulations that you might not know exist. The other useful thing that Jason included was the danger of uploading stuff that is not your own, as opposed to just streaming them. I always use youtube, and sometimes, I come across clips that are labeled as 'due to copyright infringement, this clip is unavailable' or something like that. That is because they uploaded clips that are copyrighted and that are not their production. Overall, these copyright laws are present to keep documents safe and to avoid theft among musicians, writers, filmmakers, photographers, poets, etc.
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Nice post from a different perspective!
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