The Importance of Copyrighting and What we know about it?
Reflective Blog: Week 3
The concept of copyrighting theorized to be related to John Locke’s labor theory of property argues the idea of ownership of property and why one has the right to claim it as their own property. Locke argued that not all goods are refined enough to be used in their natural state, thus it would need labour and skill to convert them into a quality product that could be used also giving the manufacturer the right to claim it as their own intellectual property after creating or modifying it.
What’s interesting is that the concept of copyrighting is not how simple as it seems to be in terms of how it works? Due to the complexity of different creative scenarios a certain product could be created in, it makes it arguably very hard to define what copyrighting actually is in a broad sense as it does not always apply equally to everything. In easy terms copyright means the protection of creativity.
Copyright protects the way an idea was expressed through creative conditioning. At the same time copyright doesn’t protect individual ideas, conceptual themes, styles, techniques or any information by itself that has not been expressed or created through an output yet.
In my opinion, copyrighting is absolutely essential for the protection of creative content. As history shows the early difficult times without any copyright law and how it all came about.
Aside from the pros of copyright, there are some cons associated that might jeopardize your ideas. Since our creative thinking and ideas are not viewed as copyright material, they could be at risk of being used by others if openly being shared. Where one could easily use your idea to their own advantage and there would be no copyright law that will protect your ideas from being leaked.
So with keeping that in mind, we might want to do things differently. After understanding this, I personally would not want to hand in details regarding any ideas to others until I have a virtual, digital or a physical prototype copy of what I am working on.
It is important to know that copyright is not a single right, rather a bunch of rights that allows the copyright owner to perform, reproduce, publicize or communicate about their work to the public in any form. Anyone else aside from the authorized owner cannot perform any of these tasks and are restricted to do unless permission is giving by the authorized owner.
With some exceptions, the general rule of copyright applies that the creator of the work is the responsible first authorized copyright owner.