Blog Post 23: Intellectual Property Reflection

In simple terms, intellectual property is protection granted to creators and inventors to control, use, and distribute their “original works,” such as their inventions, brands, logos, and literary works. Just to name a few. And IP registrations can come at all levels, including state and federal registration. And both are equally important. State registrations are often overlooked, but they shouldn’t be as they can be (1) a lot cheaper when compared to federal registration and (2) incredibly helpful for companies/creators who know for a fact that their works/brands will never enter interstate commerce. Something that happens more than one may think. And as much as a proud “IP nerd,” I don’t believe interactive service providers should not be able to dodge liability from intellectual property infringement claims at the federal or state level. These giant platforms are already given a ton of leeway, which is fine for a lot of things. But, intellectual property shouldn’t be one of them. If we allowed these huge corporations to escape liability for stealing creators’ work for their own financial gain, we would be infringing on the rights of those creators, thus making IP essentially pointless.

Further, in a society without intellectual property rights, it’s possible that advancements in the worlds of technology, art, fashion, you name it, would come to a complete standstill as creators may be too afraid of their work being taken from them without any consequences.

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