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_COPYRIGHT LAW_

In 2005, Vietnam signed into the Berne convention, which is the international convention for the protection of literary and artistic work. With this convention, Vietnam has promised to protect the copyright and punish someone who makes the copy illegally. However, in terms of consumers, very important though the copyright is, I - one of Vietnamese people - didn’t care about that convention, I just cared about how to buy a product as cheap as possible. So, I used to go along with the people who made the copy illegally and sold it with the lower price. I’m sure that I would continue to buy illigal - copied books, DVDs, CDs, etc if I had not joined in the meeting about introducing Berne Convention and Copyright law in the Youth Cultural House. Thanks to this useful meeting, I now really respect Berne convention and strongly believe that copyright law should be applied all over the world.

Joining in this meeting, I recognized that copyright law was the creators' right that protects their own products from illegal copying or selling. Have you ever asked yourself why others can create a product but the others cannot? The difference between them is that some - the writers, filmmakers, photographers- can imagine and convert their imagination into real product while some- we - the consumers - don’t have any ideas to make the product, or don’t have ability to put ideas into real things. In order to imagine and transform their ideas into their paintings, novels, a piece of music or new inventions, the creators have to devote their own talents, their time, their efforts and even their money. For example, Bill Gates had to spend his own time, his talent and even his money to make Microsoft software- the most popular and useful software in the world. So, is it fair for the inventors when their heart-made product is used and sold without their permission? Of course, NO. That’s why we need the copyright law to protect their work and their product from illegal use. Everybody, no matter where they are, no matter which country they belong to have to respect the inventor’s work by respecting the copyright law. Therefore, copyright should be applied all over the world in order to protect the father’s product and their hard work.

Thanks to the meeting about protecting the copyright in the Youth Cultural House, I know that we need copyright law to encourage the authors to create. Imagine we were not the consumers; we were the writer of Harry Porter book, would we continue to write this book when our books were made a large number of copies illegally? I’m sure that more than eight over ten people will say NO. There are two reasons for this answer. First, without copyright law, the writer is unknown because when the readers buy the illegal copy of an interesting book like Harry Porter, they may not care about the writer or even may not be supplied the information of the writer from their illegal copied book. What will happen? Many readers are interested in this book but the writer’s hard work is not mentioned and their name is even strange with their book’s fans. So, how can the writer have motivation to continue on creating the next new interesting one? Second, without the Copyright Law, they- the creators do not benefit but the illegal stealing ones earn a lot of money from their heart-made products. However, with some authors, profit is a  motivation for them to create. Theirfore, copying illegal products of these authors may stop their creation and lead many valuable ideas to be still on the paper. Consequently, copyright law should be accepted all over the world before the creative makers don’t have any motivation to imagine and convert the imagination into the real product.

         We cannot deny that making the copies of a book; a CD… is much cheaper than the product that is protected by copyright law because we just have to pay for the papers and the printed ink, not for the writers’ intellectual properties. However, if we continue to do this illegal work, we may not have any valuable products in the near future because the authors do not have motivation to create any more. Moreover, we agree that the developing countries’ people have to face with financial problem when the copyright are applied. They- most of poor people in developing countries don’t have enough money to buy the quality products- the ones are protected by copyright law.   That is the reason why they think that the copyright law shouldn’t be applied in their countries. It seems to be right in short term but it is not good in the long one. When the copyright law isn’t applied in the poor countries, at first they can save an amount of money, but after that they will not be shared the new technique, new inventions and new knowledge from many intelligent authors. As a result, the developing countries without the copyright law will always face with financial problem because of lack the new inventions for their country development. Remember that no one is ready to share their intellectual product for the ones who always want to use their product illegally. Therefore, we now all agree that the copyright law should be applied all over the world, both developing and developed countries in order to have a lot of valuable products from the authors now and forever.

Whenever we read an interesting story from a book, listen to a piece of unforgettable music from a CD or watch a romantic but funny movie from a DVD, make sure that our book, our CD and our DVD are legal copied products. Using the product protected by copyright law, we not only respect the right of the creators for their hard work but also take the chance to be shared the unique ideas and products in the future. Hope that we all enjoy the legal copied product and remember that our country has already signed into Berne convention.