What is Intellectual Property? WIPO
- Do you think a core practice in writing copyright law is semantics? It seems that the wording, in order to not be contested, really needs to be concise and specific.
briefly describe your feelings about intellectual property, relating it to your own life.
I work at the Visual Resources Center in the Art & Art History department here on campus as a visual resources assistant and I do digital imaging for students and professors. So I basically scan in images, perform image corrections on those digital images, then catalog all the images to be incorporated in the University digital image library. Thanks to fair use, with the right legal observances, our collection i able to grow for educational purposes without violating the law. However we come in contact with fuzzy copyright law and have a lot of trouble navigating the minefield. This has spurred a lot of conversations with my bosses regarding the copyright system we use. One major topic we have discussed is whether or not copyrights are doing what they are meant to do, which is encourage exclusive creative work for a defined time period without creating monopolies.
I work at the Visual Resources Center in the Art & Art History department here on campus as a visual resources assistant and I do digital imaging for students and professors. So I basically scan in images, perform image corrections on those digital images, then catalog all the images to be incorporated in the University digital image library. Thanks to fair use, with the right legal observances, our collection i able to grow for educational purposes without violating the law. However we come in contact with fuzzy copyright law and have a lot of trouble navigating the minefield. This has spurred a lot of conversations with my bosses regarding the copyright system we use. One major topic we have discussed is whether or not copyrights are doing what they are meant to do, which is encourage exclusive creative work for a defined time period without creating monopolies.
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