PSYC 3290 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Copyright Infringement, Logical Reasoning, Free Market
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2 behaviour of corporations in a capitalistic society identify what arguments look like in standard form arguments and conclusion both arguments not separated clearly. -> ideas bottom paragraph of page 211 private means of production and profit in a competitive market. Internet piracy does not physically take the artist"s creations and deprive them of their ownership. Internet piracy is instead a digital duplicate of the electronic media. Copyright undermines competition,since you cannot claim ownership on non-physical things, but copyright places ownership on non-physical things. Copyright is used to undermine competition when a corporation will close ownership of ideas when ideas can"t be owned --> overlapping thus cannot accuse people of stealing. Speak in first person talk about counter arguments just a bit. Corporations are no greater than anyone else who copyrights (12 year old girl pirating example) Corporations are stealing ideas from the root (the artists themselves) with the sole intent to monetize these ideas.