COPYFIGHT Copyright!

We had many workshops related to the subject of copyright as we had to prepare for a copyright debate. We were split up into two groups; anti - motion and pro-motion. We then had to go away and gather research in order to support the sides which we were given. I was part of the anti motion team arguing that copyright should be kept. As a group we firstly set each other roles and responsibilities of who was doing what. as there was quite a few of us, we created a Facebook group page where we could all post ideas, points and articles towards the lead up to our debate date. 

My role in the group was to come up with points for the opposing team to argue with:

• Copyright is used to protect a creators piece of work as it was probably worth a lot of money.
• If there was no such thing as copyright, we would see a lot less content and expansion on creativity  
• Copyright is a way of shielding pirates and allows companies to people good revenue.
• Copyright stops people from stealing someone piece of original work, there's a difference between stealing and borrowing
• Copyright  reinforces restrictions to people’s creativity and without it people would create or expand on original creations freely.

Social CAPITAL.

(Coleman, 1988) refers to social capital the resources accumulated through the relationships among people. Social capital is an elastic term with a variety of definitions in multiple fields (Adler & Kwon, 2002).

As a teenager of the 21st century, social capital creates a big imapct in my life

Putnam, R. D. (2000). Bowling Alone. New York: Simon & Schuster

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