READ & WRITE "TASK 5. Opinion About Copyright Reform"

 

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Today I read a book "The case for copyright reform" where main topics were Copyright policy, and why it should be reformed.

I would like to share my opinion about topic 'A Constructive Proposal For Copyright Reform' which starts from 3 page and ends on a 7 th.

MAIN CONCEPTS

Main concept of their idea, is to make non-commercial product free (without any copyright watermarks), with what im completely agree, that only products with commercial point should be protected by copyright watermark.

Their proposal can be summarized in five points:

• Moral Rights Unchanged
• Free Non-Commercial Sharing
• 20 Years Of Commercial Monopoly
• Registration After 5 Years
• Free Sampling

MORAL RIGHTS UNCHANGED

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Nobody should be allowed to claim that they are ABBA, or have written all of Paul McCartney’s songs, unless they actually are or have. To the extent that this is a real world problem, it should still be illegal to do so. ”Give credit where credit is due” is a good maxim that everybody agrees with.

With this im completely agree, that you have to give credits to the creator, it's not only ethical norms, it's also polite.

FREE NON-COMMERCIAL SHARING

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We want to restore copyright to its origins, and make absolutely clear that it only regulates copying for commercial purposes. To share copies, or otherwise spread or make use of use somebody else’s copyrighted work, should never be prohibited if it is done by private individuals without a profit motive. Peer-to-peer file sharing is an example of such an activity that should be legal.

Here as well,  If person don't have a purpose, to sell some kind of product, like a commercial, it should be free to use, and free to share without any charging. 

But, here comes, a question, how some kind of structures, will find someone, who at first, doesn't wanted to sell something, but then sold it. To be honest, I think some kind of Free Non-Commercial sharing is available today, and they already implemented some kind of checking, whether someone sold something or not. 

But here's mine solution for that: mark any digital - product: in exif information, that can be tracked after))   

P.S Yeah, I Know, it's the most simplest solution, which can be easily changed after some manipulations with data, but I had to present some kind of solution 👀

20 YEARS OF COMMERCIAL MONOPOLY

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We want to shorten the protection time to something that is rea- sonable from both society’s and an investor’s point of view, and propose 20 years from publication.

For me, actually 20 years is the same as 70 years, which was mentioned here on page 5, but it sounds more right than life + 70 years, after publishing. So here im also agree and cannot advice something other, because im not truly inform about time protection in such questions.

REGISTRATION AFTER 5 YEARS

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Copyright protection should be given automatically like it is today to newly published works, but rights owners who want to continue to exercise their commercial exclusivity of a work beyond the first 5 years after publication should be required to register the right, in such a way that it can be found by a dili- gent search of public rights databases. This will solve the orphan works problem.

Again, im completely agree about second stage, when creator,  should by himself, register his right on that product, in global register of rights after 5 years from publishing. 

In that case, he may forgot to do it, and then his product will be free to share and use))

But it also a good idea for publisher itself, on a start, when he publishing some kind of product, to his product it automatically assign copyright mark, and thus, he does not need to do anything with that on a first step.

FREE SAMPLING

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Today’s ever more restrictive copyright legislation and practice is a major obstacle to musicians, film makers, and other artists who want to create new works by reusing parts of existing works. We want to change this by introducing clear exceptions and limita- tions to allow remixes and parodies, as well as quotation rights for sound and audiovisual material modeled after the quotation rights that already exist for text.

If im not mistaken, it is possible to make remixes, use minuses (beats), in third party music, only what you have to do, is change a few parts, volumes, and assign on top of that - few instruments, and it will work, I dont know about other countries, but in Russia it's a common thing)) 

But yeah, im also agree with such idea, as mentioned above, but it has to be controlled very precisely, and be ready, that most of the popular artist, may be against it. Therefore, we should think, how to organize it that it will give give benefits for both sides.

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