by Diyanah Lubis

Ask any writer whether their job is all about writing, cooking up a good angle and making sure their grammar and vocabulary is flawless ,and they will flare up: “Hell, no!” Then, you'd wonder what difficulties could they be facing besides the usual grammar, and bad content. Well, to be honest, as a writer myself, there are lots of things to worry about. You'd always worry about who will rip off your next good idea. You'd wonder whether this piece of writing is actually someone else's. You don't know what sort of vibes you're giving when you seem to be the only one asking question after question in a press event.

According to online dictionary, Dictionary.com, it defines that copyright is the exclusive right to make copies, license, and otherwise exploit a literary, musical, or artistic work, whether printed, audio or video. To add to that copyright can expire. This ranges from country to country, though. For example, in the States, copyright in a work created on or after January 1, 1978, subsists from its creation and, endures for a term consisting of the life of the author, and 70 years after the author's death.

Copyright is basically having the right to say no. These copyright holders tell others that we cannot build on, revise, copy or distribute their work. As simple as that. Copyright brings incentive to work from the market. Yet copyright has the potential of locking up knowledge, insight, information, and wisdom from the rest of the world. So it is also fundamentally a conditional restriction on speech and print. For about 300 years, the system has been going on well and strong.

Yes, writers do get IT the most and we have no doubts about that. We deal with unresponsive interviewees, copyright laws and also the issue of“Who Owns What”. If that's not enough, we still have to produce a good piece of writing to please the world. Don't you agree, as the title suggests, writers get the most trouble?

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DIYANAH LUBIS
Writer
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