1. Copyright – A Dirty Word Alicia Atwood Copyright A Dirty Word Alicia Atwood

2. What exactly is the problem?

3. “Copyright is out of control. It's been generated for profit at everyone's expense.” Brett Gaylor

4. Society needs to understand that copyright has gotten out of hand and threatens America’s moral foundations.

5. “Copyrightis the use or reuse of words or ideas without permission.” Laura J. Murray

6. Why is this a problem?

7. Problem 1 Society has to ask permission to criticize culture and therefore has fewer available works.

8. "Why should we have to ask cultureto let us critique it?" Brett Gaylor

9. Problem 2 Innovation, renovation, and expression are suppressed.

10. “Culture builds from the past.” Brett Gaylor

11. The people who hold copyrights used someone else's work before, but theybeat everyone else to make it law, so no one else can do what they did.

12. "One consequence of this networking of culture is in fact the abandonment of the ideal high culture as a unifying force." However… Jay David Bolter

13. In Brazil, copyright laws are inconsequential and the culture builds upon older works found through the advanced networks, bringing this society together through this higher new purpose for culture and art.

14. The Confusion Plagiarism can be connected with copyright, when it is something entirely different.

15. “Plagiarism is the use or reuse of words or ideas without acknowledgement.” Laura J. Murray

16. Truth 1 Plagiarism stunts creativity and expression in a society by allowing people to copy verbatim instead of creating or modifying another work for a new meaning.

17. “Art is either plagiarism or revolution.” Paul Gauguin

18. Truth 2 Plagiarism is not bad because it involves copyright infringement, but because it is a lie.

19. So what? Society should be careful not to plagiarize and become unable to think for themselves, but not fall into the bondage of copyright laws and be unable to think at all.

20. “Even in the world of copyright, we have a right to repeat people’s words in order to hold them accountable, bring them into dialogue, or use them as a springboard.” Laura J. Murray