Reflection
Copyright
To begin my reflection on copyright, i’d like to acknowledge the depth of it. Copyright is incredibly fascinating. Copyright is legal protection to a creator of work to discuss the rights and distribution. There is also many types of protections too like trademarking. Copyright is critical in part because it makes people want to be creative. Who would want to be creative if their work is never protected.
Attribution
Attribution is the form of giving credit to someone when you use their work. Attribution is also, in my opinion, a moral thing as well. If the work is free of copyright, I would still want to give them credit because it was not my idea.
Why I choose my copyright
I actually went through the website listed, Creative Commons, to choose my copyright. I went through different prompts of things I never thought of. It discussed things like commercial use and requirements for sharing my work. I choose what I did because I want anyone using my work to include proper attribution.
Other’s work
Using other peoples work is apart of many stories. In theory, everyone creates their own unique and original ideas but sometimes people have fantastic ideas for some work already created. Barbie comes to mind (maybe because the video included in the coursework in my class) but the Barbie movie was a hit and yet Barbie dolls had been around for decades. There was no disparaging the creative idea of Barbie by making the movie, it just was a different idea using the same item. I think it’s important to just credit the work you are using. Whether you have the upmost respect for someone or completely disagree with their work, it is their work. In my opinion, ethics is an important part to go along with creativity because others ideas matter just as much as yours.
