INTELLECTUAL PROPERTYMusic and Copyrights
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY According to Webster’s dictionary, property is defined as the exclusive right to possess, enjoy, and dispose of a thing. Intellectual Property is therefore the right to possess, enjoy, and dispose of any property of the intellect. ... Intellectual property is currently protected under federal law and therefore, by downloading music for free the law has been breached. ... This reason is enforced by the utilitarian view on intellectual property. This view expresses the idea that intellectual property is needed to provide with incentives to create socially useful products. ... Copyrights might not have been that necessary in Plato’s time since access to other people’s work was not as easy or as economical to obtain as it is today. ... Also, some mention that Socrates, like many other thinkers of the same era did not need to be wealthy and still were motivated to share their intellectual property.