Apple v Samsung Patent Case; Similar to Copyright Unit

Recently Apple Inc. is suing Samsung Electronics for a sum of $2.2 billion, arguing that 9 of Samsung's smartphones infringe on 5 of its patents. In turn, Samsung is countersuing Apple for a sum of $6 million as they argue that Apple infringed on 2 of their patents when the first iPhone was created. This premise of each company infringing on each others patents ties somewhat into the unit of copyright that we discussed in class. Where one individual or corporation has rights to something and work to prevent others from using it without paying some kind of royalties or prevent use altogether. In the example, where Stephanie Lenz posted a video of her son dancing to "Lets Go Crazy" by Prince, she was soon threatened to be sued for copyright. Lenz apparently did not have permission or the rights to use said content in the video that she posted on YouTube. The trial between these two smartphone giants is quite similar, whatever patents that Samsung infringed they were obviously something that Apple had the rights to and did not grant Samsung permissions to use, and vice versa. This shows that copyright goes beyond into an issue that individuals and corporations are keeping all ideas and creations to themselves without allowing anyone to use them for inspiration to create. Our world is selfish and money hungry to say the least but hopefully things will change to inspire even greater creations.