The Digital Past

I don’t agree with the statement, “intellectual property is property- it does not matter who made it, it matters who owns it.” If you made something that was a piece of you, like a song which was your ideas that song should be recognized as yours forever. The argument with selling a house and then having to move out after a certain time doesn’t even make sense. That is physical or materialistic property while something like a song is purely intellectual. However, I do not believe if you sing someone else’s song you should be charged for it everytime you sing. I think it’s absurd that singing “Happy Birthday” in public is a copyright infringement. If you are singing a song you aren’t claiming it as your own property. No one is going to go to the ASCAP to get a license so that they can sing “Happy Birthday” in a public place. We have bigger problems to worry about than to make sure people don’t sing “Happy Birthday” without a license. Also, the majority of people pay for some type of music application in order to listen to music/learn the song in the first place. Overall, the details on copyright are quite confusing to me. I wouldn’t be able to defend or represent someone by any means. I guess that’s why they make people go to law school!