Week 10 was about copyright and sampling. Copyright is one of the many powers that corporations hold. They are able to own material that might naturally be free to share, such as art. Corporations are an interesting phenomenon because they are entities that possess the rights of people. When a person starts a corporation, that company stands separately from themselves. They are not a part of it in legal terms. Because corporations are their own being, they have the ability to own intellectual property as well. Corporations have played a big role in copyright law over the years, especially Disney. I think it is very unscrupulous how Disney has seemingly been able to manipulate the law. The graph that we looked at about the extension of copyright over the years with the creation of mickey mouse is very telling about how their revenue is able to influence to legal system. I do not believe that copyright should be extended for a very long time because it inhibits innovation. Companies try to patent things now, not for the sake of intellectual property, but to protect their wallets. Consider the way that they can prevent generic drugs from being made when a drug is initially found to be successful. A generic drug would give many more people access to potentially life saving remedies, but instead not everyone can afford it just like with the Epipen situation.