1. Copyright
A Dirty Word
Copyright – A Dirty Word
Alicia Atwood
Alicia Atwood

2. What exactly is the problem?

3. “Copyright is out of control. It's been generated
for profit at everyone's expense.”
Brett Gaylor

4. Society needs to understand that copyright has
goCen out of hand and threatens America’s
moral foundaFons.

5. “ Copyright is the use or reuse of
words or ideas without permission.”
Laura J. Murray

6. Why is this a problem?

7. Problem 1
Society has to ask permission to criFcize culture
and therefore has fewer available works.

8. Why should we have to ask culture
to let us criFque it?

9. Problem 2
InnovaFon, renovaFon, and expression
are suppressed.

10. “Culture builds from the past.”
Brett Gaylor

11. The people who hold copyrights used someone
else's work before, but they
beat everyone else to make it law,
so no one else can do what they did.

12. "One consequence of this networking of culture
is in fact the abandonment of the ideal high
culture as a unifying force."
Jay David Bolter
However…

13. In Brazil, copyright laws are inconsequenFal and
the culture builds upon older works found
through the advanced networks, bringing this
society together through this higher new
purpose for culture and art.

14. The Confusion
Plagiarism can be connected with copyright,
when it is something en5rely different.

15. “ Plagiarism is the use or reuse of
words or ideas without acknowledgement.”
Laura J. Murray

16. Truth 1
Plagiarism stunts crea5vity and expression in a
society by allowing people to copy verbaFm
instead of creaFng or modifying another work
for a new meaning.

17. “Art is either plagiarism or revoluFon.”
Paul Gauguin

18. Truth 2
Plagiarism is not bad because it involves
copyright infringement, but because it is a lie.

19. So what?
Society should be careful not to plagiarize and
become unable to think for themselves, but
not fall into the bondage of copyright laws and
be unable to think at all.

20. “Even in the world of copyright, we have a right
to repeat people’s words in order
to hold them accountable, bring them into
dialogue, or use them as a springboard.”
Laura J. Murray