Copyright – your most annoying best friend.

Today the copyright lawyer for RMIT University came into our ‘lectorial’ to explain the basics of Australian Copyright law. Im not going to do into detail because really… we hire people to deal with it.

The part about copyright that always got me was ‘who decides if its similar’ and ‘what if i ACTUALLY did it first.’

How are we meant to know when we come up with an idea if its already been done? We can google some things – but how do we know google is not gonna run off with our ideas and make millions. This is my essential problem with it, i might have an idea and actually do it first but im not gonna know until somebody sues me, and then who decides if its similar…

This is the part of the post where i usually keep it positive and suggest a solution… But i got nothing, so please let me know what you think…