Jinling Tian / Intellectual Property / Tuesday 11a.m

JInling Tian / Intellectual Property / Tuesday 11 a.m

 

       Recently, downloading the movie, 'The Frozen', has been issued since the Disney claimed that they would file a suit against the people who illegally downloaded the movie The Frozen on the Internet. Though we overlooked the invasion of intellectual property until now, as the Disney said they would respond to it strongly, it can be the turning point of the way dealing with intellectual property problem.

 

       The violation of intellectual property is serious now. From tiny things like music and movie to serious things like thesis, it's pervasive in our society. What's worse, the more we try to eradicate it, the more the way of it becomes foxy and complicated. It means that it's very hard to completely root out the bad convention. People don't want to invest their time and money too much when they find something, especially in this information-oriented period. People tend to like the word 'fast' and 'free'. As they pursue these two too much, they often cross the line saying intellectual property. Then, in this case, is it a better way to punish it or not?

 

       The positive aspect of regulating the violation of intellectual property is that we can protect the right of people who invented the original sources. The inventors are not quite different from us. They also like 'fast' and 'free'. They create things because they get some privilege, for example money, as a reward. If thier privilege are not protected well, they would lose motivation and inspiration to create things, and as a result, we may lose lots of awesome inventions in a long run. However, are the inventors sure they would never invade other inventors' intellectual property? Maybe it's impossible. So, considering it, it's not always a good way to push the standard harshly

 

       There's also negative aspect of protecting intellectual property. As mentioned above, it's impossible for every one of us to live without violating intellectual property once. It means that every inventor, the owner of intellectual property, can be a potential invader, the illegal user of other's intellectual property. Regulating intellectual property can be the behavior which shackle ourselves. So, maybe just allowing each other to use things freely is worth to try though it may have some side-effects.

 

       Intellectual property is a complicate issue to handle. We should consider both aspects. To protect it or not, what's most important is to make people never lose their creative thoughts and motivations. As there's an saying 'Killing two birds in one stone', we have to try hard to think about a solution catching two things at once.