Personally I don’t think that Copyright Law needs to have any alterations. I think that is a well designed form of protection from the United States Government to authors of literal, musical, dramatic, artistic work.
This Law is very important when it comes to protect work found in the most important and used source of information called Internet. Just because the information published in the internet has easy accessibility it does mean that one can alter it or use it as someone else’s work; therefore copyrighted work found online should be treated as regular work found in other media.
What recently has been on the news this week was the announcement of News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch to charge online news aggregators (like Google) for distributing his company’s news paper articles. Some people post stories from News Corp.’s newspapers without permission or rewrite the information, said Murdoch, which could be a main reason to enforce more strict rules on the Digital Millennium Act of 1998 that regarding information displayed online. The DMCA prohibits the intentional removal or alteration of copyright information and the knowing addition of false copyright information and if these acts are done with intent to induce, enable and facilitate a copyright infringement.
What I strongly support is the modification made on 1997 to the copyright law limiting the right of authors, publisher and producers allowing educational institutions the use of work without permission and paying any royalties to material protected by copyright. In this alteration the beneficiaries were us the students.
