Culture and the Copy

This article of Lara Kriegel (the author) explains the begginings of the calico. The calicoes are cheaply printed cottons whose success lay at the heart of the consumer and industrial revolutions and also deeply affected uniqueness and European's culture. Hillel Schwartz declared that Westerns have lived within a "cultural copy" on the past three hundred years. Right now, it would be so hard to fight against calico trade and "cultural copy" because it has became so wildspread. A global problem that we are facing nowadays and which cannot help remove calico trade and cultural copy, is "piracy".
If in the past hundred years, Members of Parliament couldn't resolve that problem, how could it be resolved now. Members of Parliament, merchants, and manufacturers whose loyalties crossed party and region compaigned to extend the copiright on designs and used a lot of different strategies in order to fight against piracy. But at the end, designers begun being less concentrated on doing excellent things because they know that their designs would be stollen and they won't take profit of it. Life is much more stressful for nowadays' designers. People I do not envy at all, are musicians. With the improvement of the internet and other new technologies, it is easier for pirates to steal, download and sell CDs as if it was theirs. If we take a look behind us, we can notice that musicians used to sell millions and millions of CDs. Micheal Jackson, The Beattles, Elvis Presley, Ray Charles, and so on, have sold millions of album and they still keep the record of best sellers. But nowadays, if we take examples as Jay-z, Eminem, Lil Wayne, Youssou N'dour...etc, we notice that they are maybe more popular than those first cited, but of course they sell less CDs than them. It is just because they are unlucky to be born when the new technologies that directly or indirectly improve piracy have developed in an extraodinary way.
No policy is able to fix the problem of piracy. If it was just a problem with pirates, it would have been less difficult to fix. But the problem is that almost everybody is deeply involved in.