Piracy

Lara Kriegel’s paper «Culture and the Copy » as its name says it talks about how the phenomena of copying starting and how it affected industry especially in calicoes’ industries. Calicoes are cottons printed very appealing to women which are normally from India and had known a big success in Europe in countries like England for Instance so that British even started making them there. The originality of calicoes and what actually made them so appreciated is the design printed on them. These designs are made by artists manually who sells them. However, there are pirates when noticing that a design is successful, copy them with machines printers and sell them cheaper than original ones. Therefore, some people to face this problem propose to increase the length of copyright which an amount of time while the creator of a design has the exclusivity of it.
The problem of copying is still a problem today with pirates although there are many severe laws against pirates. And since pirates are all over the world nowadays it is difficult to fight against this. Consumers are also part of the problem. As a matter of facts pirates will still be until there will be people who prefers buying things cheaper. And those who suffer the most from that are artists and creators.
In my opinion this is also a consequence of the globalization phenomena. More and more, people want or need things that cannot be found where they live. Therefore, they have two choices. Either they buy the original one coming from abroad with all taxes that will increase the price or they choose to pay the “fake” one which is homemade and cheaper. For example it is because Fifty Cent is known worldwide (which can be linked to globalization) that people want to buy his albums everywhere and that his albums get pirated.