Copyright law does not need to be changed. Whether folks are going to the movies and “boot-legging” films, or folks are downloading music on their computers when they should not be, or we, as student/researchers are writing papers and including works in our papers form authors without giving the credit, copyright law, if anything, should be more strongly enforced.
Yes, we all know that the economy is at a downturn for the moment, and it may be very difficult to enjoy the finer things in life (i.e. – going to the movies, buying c.d.’s of music we would like to listen to). However, this is not or ever should be an excuse to cheat movie or music makers out of the money they may have worked very hard for. When we do these things we are steling from others and taking money out of other peoples pockets, this is very immoral and against the law.
Another problem is with writing papers, of any sort. The lazy man’s way out is to simply paraphrase something that was written already by the person(s) that take the time and do their research. Typically this happens when one waits for the last minute to accomplish a task and need an easy way out of it. Paraphrasing or summarizing any work of an author without acknowledging where you received the inspiration for is plagarism and goes against copyright laws.
So the question now is why should copyright laws be changed, to give the lazy person an easy way out, or to steal from others, because this is what will happen and it will ulimately lead to an unjust society, one even more so than now.
