The word copyright has many different definitions and many people think that it means many different things. The way most people get their definition of copyright is the way they were taught it, but one thing that everyone should know is that it is ILLEGAL in so many ways. At first I thought copyright just meant that you simply just asked permission to use or copy that persons work. Later I found out that I was wrong in a way but I was also right. The definition of copyright is the legal right granted to a person by law for publication, production, or distribution of their own work to other people.
For homework we were to talk about our thoughts on copy writing and to find an article that shows an example of copyright infringement or Internet piracy. In this article I found a picture of Obama that was drawn by the artist Shepard Fariey. The artist copied off of a picture that was taken by the Associated Press. The artists took the same pose and facial expression from the photo from the associated press and added some other things and called it her own work. She is breaking the law by using part of a photo from someone else and using it in her own work. The punishment was that Shepard Fariey was sued by the press for using the same pose of Obama that they had originally created themselves. I think that the punishment is unfair because Shepard did not copy the pose the way it is she added something’s and changed somethings. She used different colors and added the word hope. This would be her own work. She also added a pin on Obama's suit.
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