Useful content is spread on all social media platforms with various specializations such as cooking content, technology, travel, book reviews, and much more, which is positive, but when browsing the communication platforms carefully and watching the various accounts, we can discover that some ideas of the contents are very similar, and may even be stolen, copied, or Repeated from one content maker to another, is this phenomenon negative or positive?
Copying.. stealing.. repeating
I cannot determine what is the name of the phenomenon of “repeating the idea of content between makers and social media.” Is it “copying ideas” or “stolen” or “repeating them differently” and the reason is because it is “content that is not subject to copyright and quotation.” The makers do not put warning phrases to protect Their content, and they do not pay to preserve the rights to the produced materials, and they do not follow up on those who quote or copy the ideas of the content, so it can be said realistically that it is “content available for everyone to reuse, copy, steal and repeat its ideas” without accountability, so it is possible to notice the replication of content ideas in the same country or other countries , and even between countries with different languages, some accounts are copied from others, Western or East Asian, instead of searching for new content ideas, so no one knows who is the owner of the idea or content.
Use other people’s resources
Some content makers follow other makers whose content depends on reliable scientific sources, they publish links to the sources under their videos or refer to them during the video, so they are taken to create content with the same idea to shorten the effort of research, thinking and access to reliable sources, but the published content itself has become an example for creating other content Similar, with modification to the way it is edited, presented and narrated.
A positive aspect of the case of copying… theft… duplicating the content
The process of copying, stealing, or duplicating content makers on social media may be subject to the theory of “media influence on two levels.” This media theory indicates that media materials and messages affect opinion leaders, who in turn influence their audiences because they know how to communicate them using the style, words, and dialect required to achieve influence their audiences.
Here it can be considered that the content makers who take the ideas of others apply the theory of “media influence on two levels”, as they take the idea and style from the original creator of the content and repeat it using the dialect or words that affect their target audiences in villages, cities or other countries and in various languages.
This method achieves great results because the original creator of the content may speak in a dialect or language that does not affect other audiences, so the other content creator spreads the idea of the content using the tools of influence that he knows with his own audience.
Different style to achieve the effect
The creator of the original content may have presented it in a serious manner, so another maker comes to convey the same content but in a humorous manner, and another maker may use a lot of influences in his content while another uses linguistic narration. The effect is also, if it is a teenager, it affects the adolescents, and if it is an adult, it affects the adults, and so on.
Positive conclusion
So, in a positive way, the reproduction of content in different forms and types enriches useful content in social networks and affects diverse audiences more broadly.
A negative aspect of copying… theft… duplication of content
Clearly, it is the “theft of ideas and efforts” of the original content producer. Instead of thinking about how the owner of the content can be distinguished by what he produces and show his ideas and his style of influencing the audience, another comes to steal the idea, copy the style, add some modification to it, and repeat what others did in another country and audience.
And if the content is public and has no intellectual rights, the creator of the content must have self-censorship not to steal the ideas and efforts of others.
It is possible that the ideas of a specific content stimulate another content producer, so he presents the topic from another point of view, and this matter is similar to the producers of World War II documentaries, as they revolve in the same orbit, but cover different topics, theories and opinions, but without much similarity in their content such as the films used, pictures, documentary script, linguistic formulation, etc. Note that the documentaries are not less than 50 minutes, so a sentence or repeated material may appear here and there, but 90% is not repeated. As for the content industry, it does not exceed 15 minutes if it is for YouTube, but for the rest of the communication platforms, it is 4 minutes as a maximum, and use Materials, pictures and linguistic formulations from others, the impact of which is great and very clear that they are stolen, reproduced or duplicated.
Conclusion
Is theft, copying or duplication in the production of social media content legitimate or not!
Are the benefits of stealing, copying, or duplicating the content of communication platforms great for the public, because it is a diversity of methods and targeting different ages in different countries and regions, so it is legitimate for the benefit!
Should we mention the source of the material produced for social media platforms as rights and as self-respect that we do not confiscate the efforts and ideas of others!
Answering these questions determines whether the theft, copying, or duplication is legitimate or not.
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