written by Ikhwan Jamaludin (Intelectual Property)
Have you has a problem when you try to take someone idea but you feel guilty because of the idea is copyright reserved? Moreover, the idea of materials that you want to take must has the permission from the author before you can take the idea from the materials? Those questions arises because of the materials are copyright reserved. If we want to take someone idea to make it as a part of our idea, we couldn't and we can't. That is called copyright protection. There are several ways that we can take someone idea, but we must take in a proper way, means a legal way. For example: citation. Cited work is a legal way if we want to take someone idea, but we cannot completely to make the idea as our own idea, we can just make a part of it. It means the expression of an author's idea in order to emphasize or to support our idea. The idea of citation is actually the limitation of copyright protection. This idea had crossed to my mind when I read Richard A. Spinello book titled CyberEthics on page 95:
"Copyright protection has certain limitations considered to be in the public interest. One such limitation or "safety valve" is the "fair use" provision. For example, copyrighted literary works can be quoted and a small segment of a video work can be displayed for limited purposes including criticism, research, classroom instruction, and news reporting."
It means, the limitations convey us to the new world of expression of the idea. We keep the originality of the idea, at the same time; we express the idea in our own way. It can be criticism, learning of the class or commenting about the original idea. The expression of the idea is actually one sort of the ways granting us to overcome the problem of against the copyright reserved. We take the idea to express as well as keep the idea of itself. Instead of breach the copyright, we save the originality of the idea as an originalism to support the copyright reserved and make it possible to use it without any hesitation.
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written by Lily Syafikah
Citation is essential as we take other ideas instead of making it look like our ideas. Citation is required to avoid us from getting act on illegal copyrighted works. This thing makes me remind the honor code of Vanderbilt. Now, I understand better why honor code is important. Same as copyright laws that regulate to protect ones intellectual property, honor code is regulated to ensure we are not cheating and duplicate others works and ensure us to work on our own. If we want to take information from others resource, then we have to cite their works. Copyright protection is needed to maintain our intellectual property is not stolen by others. Like most of the people do, they quoted the sentences from someone else and express their idea in their own way. They could agree or disagree with it.
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