After reading “Ecstasy of Influence”, my view on copyright has completely changed. Before, I believe that copyright is a protection of the right of people who do creative work and to give them credit for what they have created. Now I start to think that maybe copyright is just an excuse for the capitalists to monopoly the production of commercial products that can make huge profits. If the law really wants to protect one’s ownership of his/her own creative ideas, merely ban others from “copying” those ideas is not enough. It should also ban others from talking about or thinking of those ideas without citation, since talking about or thinking of an idea of another person can also be seen as a form of “copying”. However, one will not be charged of violating the copyright of others if he talks to his friends about an interesting idea of other people or thinks about other people’s idea. One is charged of violating others’ copyright only when he/she tries to make a profit using others’ ideas or his/her actions hinder others from making a profit. So, when people talk about copyright, are they really thinking about “rights” or is it just another tool used by capitalists for monopolization and the maximization of profit?