Chapter 1 started with Disney, and gave the example of how Disney took stories from the Brother's Grimm and started to make animated shows with them. Disney became very rich off of these cartoons, and the original settings were not his ideas. Disney however was in no copy right infringement by doing this. The book also claims that the copy right laws are getting stricter and stricter, soon they will last a lifetime. The author of the book give a good example (with the comic books in Japan) of how society would flourish better with out as many strict copy right laws. In Japan there are these comic books called, "doujinshi" which are modified versions of comic books already out. These comic books are done by amateurs, and it is against the law. They just do not enforce it like the United States would, simply not enough lawyers they claim.
Chapter 2 spoke more on piracy, and how photography was made more simple to help amateurs get into it. The first photography technique was expensive (used glass negatives), and usually kept to the professionals. George Eastman in 1888 discovered a new way of making negatives on a roll of film which turned into Kodak. This helped the film industry a ton because it dropped the prices of the cameras and made it easy enough for everyone to become a person with a camera. Because of this big rise in photographers, courts decided that nothing could stop you from taking a photo and sharing it with people. How is it fair that we can take any photograph but computer's and their copy right rules are completely different and more strict.
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Ryan Wettlaufer
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