Intellectual Property
In Chapter 10 of Writing and Editing for Digital Media, author Brian Carrol addresses “copyright, fair use, and intellectual property”. Ideas, according to Carrol, are not protected until it’s physically expressed…even if it’s simply written down on a napkin in a café, like J.K. Rowling when she first thought up Harry Potter.
Intellectual property, throughout history, hasn’t really been protected until relatively recently. An example that Carrol used was Shakespeare’s As You Like It, a play in whose plot drew heavily from Rosalynde, Euphues Golden Legacie by Thomas Lodge, whose plot drew heavily from The Cokes Tale of Gamelyn by Geoffrey Chaucer.
Intellectual property law is a recent concept. It is thought by many that intellectual property and copyright law is squashing creativity, however.
“Intended to foster innovation, intellectual property law in the United
States has been utterly transformed to instead protect commercial interests.”- Brian Carrol, Writing and Editing for Digital Media
While the law is complicated, I think it’s important to continue to uphold intellectual property and copyright laws. I agree with the “intention to foster innovation”. I think the protection of creative works and executed ideas is imperative for society to continue to grow and develop.
With that being said, my meme is a depiction of Carrols ideas laid out in Chapter 10. As we learned from Carmen Cole, our ideas are not protected until they’ve been physically executed. I keep a small notebook in my backpack to write down ideas that I have all day: Things to draw, write, film, photograph, and create. It’s useful to know that all of that is protected!
The meme that you have made is really good at depicting the copy right laws. I learned a lot from your post. copy right is still a subject that I am unfamiliar with and honestly to me it is just confusing. now adays you can get copyrighted for basically anything. which to me is just down wright insane. I like when you said you wright your ideas down, so they are always protected and that is a smart thing to do! All in all, I liked the meme.
This post was very informative. It is bringing to light serious situation that happens way too often in the world of digital culture and arts. There are too many instances to count where one individual is subject to copyright. It also is an easy read for those who may not know the situation, or magnitude of the situation and it is easy to jump in and quickly understand. The meme is also pretty funny and such a real life dilemma that I seem to always be placed in.