who will own your next good idea

This essay, “Who Will Own Your Next Good Idea”, is about the laws of copyright. It asks the question, who is the rightful owner of an article written in a magazine. Charles C. Mann finds an article with an interview with his friend. No such interview took place. The article was an exact translation of the article his friend wrote. There is not a law that says you cannot do that.In paragraph 12, Mann contradicts …

…t make it legal or morally right. You are still taking credit for someone else’s work. Everything in this world revolves around copyright. Improving many products involves copyright. How do you think authors get their ideas. Ideas are made from ideas that have been made before that. In the end a translation to me, breaks the copyright rule. Plagiarism is taking credit for someone else’s work. A translation is someone else’s work.