Adaptions and Appropriations: Copyright

Copyright protects peoples ideas and thoughts and creations from being stolen from them and used without their permission. But it can also prevent creators from being inspired by someone’s ideas and using them to create something new. Most things that are created are inspired by something and will be a reflection of the thing it was inspired from. Shakespeare and Juliet was an adaptation of a poem by Arthur Brooke called The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Iuliet, written in 1562. There have been countless adaptations of Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet as well, from movies to books.

Though copyright is important in some respects, in a lot of others it hinders creativity and the ability to continue the evolution of a concept.

 

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