Free Cultures - The idea of copyright

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1. Copyright fails to promote musical creativity. Discuss this statement in the context
of cover versions and sampling.
The idea of copyright was invented to protect the interest of creators and inventors.
The major use of copyright has been related with music and creativity. File sharing and music
piracy has been the one of the most sweating issues that composers and publishers had to
worry about (Demers 2006). The internet age has brought forth the issue and has increased
the complicacies surrounding music piracy to a greater extent. The copy right law protects the
creation from theft and misuse. There is a dichotomy in this policy as it constricts the free use
of knowledge and information. The creators and composers enjoy unlimited rights on their
creation and are bale to intimidate others from composing. There had been increasing
lawsuits and litigations regarding theft of musical lyrics or note for commercialization. The
results of these lawsuits have been varied as law itself has interpreted the Intellectual property
law differently (Caress 2018). This has led to the increasing confusion and misuse of the law.
Evan the current extension of the copyright laws are not effective as they have been created
keeping in mind the transitions that are happening at present rather than the future of internet
and technology.
The coming of the internet age has made the sharing files easier. The emergence of
internet itself happened due to the ease of this activity over the platform. Numerous cases of
copyright infringement have been proved and laws have been created to ensure protection
against piracy (Schuster, Mitchell and Brown 2019). Despite all the initiatives, piracy
remains a fact and a necessary evil. Internet has enabled pirates to make copies digitally and
spread them across the world. Due to this reason, the music and movie makers have been
forced to release CDs of the original version simultaneously with same day premier. Many of
the theorists believe that the internet age has rendered the copyright almost obsolete and their