Advantages And Disadvantages Of Plagiarism

Originality is highly praised in art and design. Designers and artists create standards that their works must be original and new. Thought this concept has applied since long time, the value of original kept changing. Today, originality is defined as something that is new, and this concept has burdened designers, as one has to create something new and different in the present world where information is overflowed and easy to found.

Yet sometimes this originality is not necessarily needed for some people, as the commerce world prefer quantity rather than quality. Plagiarism cannot be avoided, whether it’s intentionally or not. However this issue has getting more complicated everyday, as design protections were made to prevent plagiarism cases

He just found out his action after he finished his works and saw a similar looking design that has been existed long before. A designer can said that the act of plagiarism that he/she’d done is unintentional, but with only that statement it cannot free him/her from accusation of copyright infringement.

Revolution in technology and information can be said gives disadvantage for artists and designers in this case. The whole collection of information that can easily be found today makes the chance of artists and designers to create original works become lessen, as link-building information systems relentlessly identify the origins of ideas that perhaps the originator and creating designer had forgotten or never known.

Thought some plagiarism cases happened unconsciously by designers, it cannot be avoided that not a few of the cases are intentional. Design is highly affected by many aspects, mainly by industry and economy. As original works become rare, copy and plagiarism sustains the economy of commerce. Hoping designers to create original works might takes long time, and it means less would be produced, manufactured and consumed, and fewer works of art would be exhibited.

Design

It consists of copyright, patents, and design rights, and each of them gives different types of protection and control for the protected works. Copyright gives protection to the expression of an idea, patent protects the idea itself, while design rights covered aspects such as shape, texture, colors, materials used, contours and ornamentation.

Copyright, compared with patents and design rights, is more flexible compared with the other types of protection, as one’s works doesn’t need to be registered to receive the protection. Infringement does not happen when someone expressing existing idea in a different form. Even though the results are similar but if the creator can proof that they didn’t copy other’s work, then infringement didn’t happen. If a component of something is found to be infringing on a copyright, it is possible to salvage the project by recasting the same idea in a different expression.

Copyright also has the principle that the restrictions should be the minimum possible. Yet this principle is always ignored, even the protection ever lasts for seventy years after the designer’s death.

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