Essays on Copyright

In the long term, plagiarism benefits nobody. It can be a short term benefit for somebody who gets away with it, but at some point they will have cheated themselves out of the knowledge and experience they falsely claim. Having your work plagiarized by somebody…

Superman Copyright Lawsuit Superman is the most well known Superhero of all times making billions of dollars over the years. However, most people don’t know the history behind the ownership of Supermans copyrights. While Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster created the character Superman in 1933…

Technology is pushing forward at an incomprehensible rate. In just the past ten years, things like Facebook and Skype were coming out for the first time! The bulky iPods were a teen’s best friend, and there was no such thing as a smart phone (2004:…

Ever since middle school I have heard copyright, trademark, patent, plagiarism and fair use used over and over again but never really knew specifically what they meant until now. I kind of just grouped them together and naively assumed they were basically synonyms for one…

Royalties are wages an author makes from the sale of books, which is a % of the list price; the price is determined before you publish your book for Kindle. Amazon does allow you to choose a price for your title from 99 cents to…

Plagiarism, despite its legal consequences, continues to be rampant in the personal and professional domains. With the market being so fragmented, it’s becoming more and more complicated for media owners to get an understanding of where all their content is getting distributed. Digital technology like…

Goal of Copyright: Copyright laws have been associated with two main broad objectives that it is intended to meet. These objectives are; Economics and the public interests and the moral rights of the creators. In terms of economics and the public interest, the goals of…