12/07/09 1030

Today, I learned about a couple of things. First thing we did was talk about things we have covered in the course since the beginning of the semester and what we have remembered off the top of our heads and off our notes, we also compared our lists with the rest of the class. We then talked about trademarks, and copyrights. I learned that it is real easy to copy right something, all we need to do is have a legal title, and legal author and that it needs to be dated, then all we need to do is have it published and the simplest way is to just have it printed out. I also learned about "grey" areas in copyrights and how some company may have similar trademarks and how they get passed that. We also talked about ethics and morals, and what we see is morally right and wrong. and near the end of our class period we had a little debate about piracy and do we feel that it is right or do we feel that it is wrong? in my personal opinion I think it is wrong but at the same time I think it is ok. For me I like music, and I think we should be able to preview a whole song before I decide to buy it, because I have bought CD's before that I didn't really even like after I bought it, which is why sometimes I end up pirating it, but if I like a music, I don't mind going out and buying the CD.