Copyright is the creative world is something that is indispensable, especially in a society where information has an easy acess worldwide. In the digital world, it is something that most cannot control, when the design is online, no one knows what could happen, who is seeing and if they are using it or not.
Copyright was brought by large corporations with the aim to extract an licensing fee, making people not to use other people work in a form that is unauthorized. It is very commom to see large companies protecting their work with patents with the fear of someone stealing the idea or using for other purposes, but in all reality, it is something that we cannot control. In this digital era we live, if creative people are not careful, they can lose the ownership title easily. Although Copyright has this powerful influence and lwas, there is an counterfeit that have been bringing good and bad news for creative people and corporations.
Piracy, the use of a product without the right authorization to do so. Firstly, because of the obvious reasons, most people would consider something negative, however, during the past years, companies have been letting themselves to have the product ideas stolen as a form of promoting themselves, knowing that although there is piracy, people will tend to go for the main source (Real version and better quality).
However, in the creative industry, the idea that pieces of design are being showned to others without the creator having any credit, it can make people upset. as Designers, long hours of work and dedication for doing something with love and perfectionism, someone likes it and use it for themselves without acknowledgment, it seems unfair.
Copyrighting in the creative industry is the safest way for designers to protect their work.
Bayne jardine 