Copyright Issues

This means that even if the creator of any material dies they will still be the owner of such material and no one would be allowed to copy or own the copyright until it expires (What is Copyright n.page). .
             Even though copyright laws are meant to protect the work of others, enforcing this law sometimes becomes a difficult task, especially on the World Wide Web. For example, many people use the internet to do research. It is simple enough to type a word or a phrase and get tons of information on what you are looking for, therefore many people print, or copy whatever they wish without thinking twice about it. This sounds logical and legal to many people, but to the surprise of many, this is not okay. Many of the work that is on the internet is copied, used, or transferred by many of us without us giving proper credit to the individual who create it. This created an on going problem because most if not all of the things on the internet are copyright protected, which mean that the person who created the work is the only person who by law is able to copy, or distribute the information. .
             Another problem with the internet is that many people who create on the internet such as establishing a website do not usually get the credit for the real work they do. For example, many pictures or written documentation can be altered with just a stroke a button. Two years ago, I knew a friend of mind that decided that he want to get back at his girlfriend because she had left him for another man. He decided to scan a picture of her online. He altered her picture by putting her face in a body of another female that was posing nude online; he then decided to e-mail the picture to her parents. This may sound bizarre, but stories like this one happen on a regular basis.
             An even harder problem to combat is the fact that there are millions of people who use the internet every day, though making it difficult to pinpoint who's violating these copyright laws.