Blog 4: Copyright (Extra Blog)

We have been taught from the time we first make a mistake to do something right, the difference between right and wrong, ethics. Copyright protects an author of an idea and product, from theft from sources who are not permitted to use them. Plagiarism is the taking of someone’s work and calling it your own. The copyright lasts for 70 years after the author’s death. After the death of an author, the copyright can be inherited by kin or given to someone else.

In every profession there are ethical standards and public relations specialists should be held to an even higher one because they are dealing with a company’s public image. So it is important to have a strong knowledge of what is ethical and what is not. The way I see it, you wouldn’t want to have something you worked really hard, physically or mentally, to be claimed by someone else so don’t do it to someone else.



I chose this video because it asked a few questions that I thought were interesting. Does copyright infringement lessen creativity? In the video he gives examples of people who have posted replies to their favorite songs, and their versions of copying their favorite artists. Yet when the mom of a 13-month-old child is asked to remove a You Tube video of him dancing to a song because she is violating the copyright of the song. I feel that this is really not an issue but a demonstration of how the law doesn’t necessarily help us.