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.
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