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Copyright. During class on Monday we discussed a few reasons why a writer may want to copyright the work he or she has created. Some of the reasons we mentioned included copyrighting in order to claim a creation as someone’s own. This could be done for various reasons: the creator takes pride in his or her work and wants to claim it as solely his or hers, he or she wants to deter other people from stealing his or her idea for the creation, and lastly, copyrighting was created in order for writers (or other designers of works) to make lots of money from the creation. In most cases, I would agree that people want to copyright in order to make money, but one should not forget that it costs money to register a copyright for a creation. Thus, the profit of that piece of work must exceed its cost in order for the creator to make any money. Next, I also believe that someone may want to copyright his or her work in order to avoid other people from stealing his ideas. However, one thing to consider is that a copyright does not cover the idea or the information itself; it only covers the form in which those ideas are expressed. Thus, an outsider can still take the idea and express it in a different form and it will not be considered stolen from the original work. The concept of copyrights has led to greater competition between creators, writers in particular. While copyrights have made it impossible to steal or build on someone else’s work, it forced people to come up with ideas for new creations. The constructing of new creations thus led to more competition within industries and kept the creation of original works fair between writers.

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