“We would get less speech without copyright. Limiting the freedom of some people to copy creates incentives to create more speech” (Lessig). In limiting the ways that one can copy the work of others, one would be forced to develop their own speech to defend, digress, explain, etc. When someone is writing something that is inspired by something else, it would be ill advised to have them take direct quotes without citation. At the same time, it would also be ill advised for one to take direct quotes, even if cited, and nothing else. With copyright and plagiarism concerns, one is not able to make the words of someone else into their own. One would then be forced to develop their own analysis, their own explanations, and their own observations that could either agree or disagree with the original content that they find. By having to put things into one’s own terms, they are developing a new view that otherwise would not have been conceptualized. In terms of news, it is important to write down exact quotes and who said them; that being said, news stories cannot be driven on quotes alone. A journalist would have to develop an analysis of what they observed, which can develop new arguments and revelations that just the words of someone else would have never provided.

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