Copyright is very important for many reasons. First of all it allows people to safely put their creations out for the public to see, hear, experience, and learn, and it does so in a way that keeps those creations safe from being stolen. If we did not have copyright then people could steal others peoples material and claim it for their own. There would be no way to give credit to people for ideas, or inventions. And anyone could claim they invented something when really, someone else did.
Although we would hope that people would not steal the credit for things that they did not create, but unfortunately it is necessary in our world today. It is also important for people to learn how to learn and do work on their own, without copying other people's things. Copyright is very important in academic atmosphere's because students in school try to cheat all the time by copying other people's papers, and ideas. If there weren't laws against copyright infringement then students would never learn how to think on their own.
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I liked that last comment about how students wouldn't be able to think on their own... It's like, if plaguerism were allowed then kids would just become super good at searching the internet and stealing people's ideas and I'm not sure how useful that skill is in the real world...
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