Today’s conversation about copyrighting I really enjoyed. It is something that we see all the time but we never pay a lot of attention too. We also never really think about it means. I found it fascinating how the length of copyright ownership increased in length to 50 years are more. This gave the authors of the work more time to make money off of the work that they had put so much time an effort into.

But thinking of it in terms of music in today’s society a lot of artists are not getting the recognition for their work because people are playing their songs in public and not paying the artists for the use of their lyrics or notes. What DJ’s do is illegal! I kept thinking about how in modern times and trying to save money on wedding expenses many people have turned to just creating a wedding playlist and using that for all the music that will be played during their wedding…..again illegal!

But then came the question as to why things should be copyrighted and not free for public use? Why not just allow everything to be part of the public domain so that everyone can evaluate and expand upon each other’s research and songs and help make them even better? In a Eutopia, yes this idea of everything being public domain would be ideal. However, we are a capitalist society and we want to make money on the things that we put our time into.