Copyright Laws

In class on Thursday Jason Hardin who is the Manager of Access Services at Trinity gave a guest lecture on copyright laws. He led an interactive class that included a power point with electronic quiz. He talked about the difference between copyright and plagiarism and how the difference between them is copyright is punishable by law. One of the topics he talked about was file sharing and how it is a crime, but is going on around the world. Students are prime candidates for file sharing because they do not have the money to pay for music on a college budget. Illegal downloading of music, movies, and videos can cost you thousands of dollars if you get caught. Most of the time students and people alike download anyway because they do not think they will get caught. This is an issue that needs to be resolved in some way and I think that making music free in someway would solve all of the problems. Musicians want to make money, so if there was a way to pay a small fee and then be able to download all the music then there would not be this issue.



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