sometimes i come across questions that i faintly recall doing on practice tests at the start of my lsat journey, and remember how they felt sooo hard but now i can't believe i'm getting them right!! this is one of them. this is just to say keep up the grind, it's so hard and can feel unrewarding but i promise you'll start to see the growth!!! we got this :)
I got this question right but one comment I like to add (that he did not mention) was "temporary.” the correct answer had "many years" so that helped me land this A.C.
Fun fact: Happy Birthday To You (written in 1893 and first published in 1911) only just recently made its way into the public domain through a settlement with Warner Music.
I hate questions like this where it just does not match reality at all and we're still supposed to make "reasonable" assumptions based on the imaginary world of the test writer's mind. Just ridiculous
Just something I noticed with these questions: look at the language in the stimulus and see if it appears in any derived form in the answer that you suspect to be correct. For example, the context features "temporary" in the first sentence, and the correct answer talks about "after death." Why would a temporary monopoly on one's idea extend after death? If it did, then it would no longer be temporary.
B makes more sense to me still lol idk. It does say ''sole purpose was to encourage the circulation of ideas by giving authors the opportunity to derive a reasonable FINANCIAL REWARD'' B says : willing to circulate their works even without any financial reward
@TeklaCo The way I read it was that B doesn't show the how copyright sometimes goes too far. B was just more of a statement about "works", and not copyright itself.
I felt that this entire answer was supported by the term "beyond". without that I dont think E would work. It is interesting bc I know that in the real world E is the right answer but I had a hard time find the evidence as such in the question stem (except for the word Beyond)
So a way that I approached this question that may help other people from getting baited by B is this: the stimulus tells us that the SOLE purpose of copyright is to only encourage authors from getting money right and we are in charge of showing something that goes beyond the scope, beyond the intention of what it was originally supposed to be. For example (and please spare biases and give some grace): Cars were originally intended to go from point A to point B faster. Some people use cars for different reasons now: to run people over, to use it as an income source, go from point A to point B or to simply collect as an enthusiast. So if we were charged showing how the car has gone farther than the original purpose it was created for, then the reasons I listed would be examples. Same way here on the question, what are ways that copyright has gone beyond its original purpose. The fact that they last after someone's death has little bearing on financial gain for the individual because well they're dead who cares about money when you're dead and it was not in the original purpose listed in the stimulus.
Dang I still don't know why B is wrong. If the sole purpose is to circulate ideas with financial reward, then not getting the financial reward would be going beyond the original purpose?
Am I confused that the original purpose is financial reward when its actually circulation of ideas.
Because a dead author can't benefit financially from the circulation of their ideas. The only purpose of the copyright, originally, was to achieve this aim. Using copyright to gain money after the author's death goes beyond the original purpose. Think of a best-selling author's estate or something that continues raking in cash even after the author is long dead. This goes against the original purpose as stated in the stimulus.
You have to think about what is going beyond the original purpose of a copyright. If author's are willing to circulate their ideas without financial reward (meaning, also without a copyright), then this is not about the copyright itself going beyond its purpose. Does that help?
You have to think about how the copyright is going beyond its purpose of circulating ideas bc of the financial reward incentive, but the other answers are talking about other tangential ideas that aren't directly about the copyright itself.
Doesn't E contradicts the stimulus? The stimulus says that the copyright was a 'temporary' grant, but how can copyright can "hold for many years after the author's death"?
Ugh. I chose C which I feel stupid for after the explanation. In my head, I thought we could safely assume that copyright laws can affect a work's ability to be published -- hence ruining its original intent to circulate ideas. If you can't get something published because your work was copyrighted, how is your work going to be circulated? That was my logic.
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"im not even sure why B is here" meanwhile i bet my life savings on B
lmaooooo
Same. I'm just not getting this lol.
sometimes i come across questions that i faintly recall doing on practice tests at the start of my lsat journey, and remember how they felt sooo hard but now i can't believe i'm getting them right!! this is one of them. this is just to say keep up the grind, it's so hard and can feel unrewarding but i promise you'll start to see the growth!!! we got this :)
love you for saying this! my day of 7sage just got better :)
i love gaslighting myself into the wrong answer
I got this question right but one comment I like to add (that he did not mention) was "temporary.” the correct answer had "many years" so that helped me land this A.C.
Great catch! I couldnt stop debating between D and E and your comment makes a huge difference!
I've been getting so many questions wrong lately it's kinda scary like why
Stay the course! The LSAT is a marathon, not a sprint! You can do this!!
I go through this too. But I am finally seeing results! This is ebs and flows
i got this right but this one is BULLLLLLSHIIIIIIT
I hate this.
@legallyhaya same
Not gonna lie.. i answered this one really fast because im a copyright paralegal lmaooo….
I read answer E was like well DUHHH... then proceeded to pick answer B
Fun fact: Happy Birthday To You (written in 1893 and first published in 1911) only just recently made its way into the public domain through a settlement with Warner Music.
Hello Dog of Wisdom
I hate questions like this where it just does not match reality at all and we're still supposed to make "reasonable" assumptions based on the imaginary world of the test writer's mind. Just ridiculous
BRUH
Just something I noticed with these questions: look at the language in the stimulus and see if it appears in any derived form in the answer that you suspect to be correct. For example, the context features "temporary" in the first sentence, and the correct answer talks about "after death." Why would a temporary monopoly on one's idea extend after death? If it did, then it would no longer be temporary.
This was my logic too when solving this. I am still confused.
"this is not a copyright problem, this is a 'you suck at writing problem'," -absolute gold.
I keep getting all these questions + weakening questions wrong. it sucks so bad 😭
Hang in there, harry
B makes more sense to me still lol idk. It does say ''sole purpose was to encourage the circulation of ideas by giving authors the opportunity to derive a reasonable FINANCIAL REWARD'' B says : willing to circulate their works even without any financial reward
@TeklaCo The way I read it was that B doesn't show the how copyright sometimes goes too far. B was just more of a statement about "works", and not copyright itself.
I felt that this entire answer was supported by the term "beyond". without that I dont think E would work. It is interesting bc I know that in the real world E is the right answer but I had a hard time find the evidence as such in the question stem (except for the word Beyond)
@AlizaGGG temporary also led me to e!
The trend of getting every level 1 and 2 wrong and way over time, but getting every 3, 4, and 5 right and under-time is still holding strong.
So a way that I approached this question that may help other people from getting baited by B is this: the stimulus tells us that the SOLE purpose of copyright is to only encourage authors from getting money right and we are in charge of showing something that goes beyond the scope, beyond the intention of what it was originally supposed to be. For example (and please spare biases and give some grace): Cars were originally intended to go from point A to point B faster. Some people use cars for different reasons now: to run people over, to use it as an income source, go from point A to point B or to simply collect as an enthusiast. So if we were charged showing how the car has gone farther than the original purpose it was created for, then the reasons I listed would be examples. Same way here on the question, what are ways that copyright has gone beyond its original purpose. The fact that they last after someone's death has little bearing on financial gain for the individual because well they're dead who cares about money when you're dead and it was not in the original purpose listed in the stimulus.
Dang I still don't know why B is wrong. If the sole purpose is to circulate ideas with financial reward, then not getting the financial reward would be going beyond the original purpose?
Am I confused that the original purpose is financial reward when its actually circulation of ideas.
Because a dead author can't benefit financially from the circulation of their ideas. The only purpose of the copyright, originally, was to achieve this aim. Using copyright to gain money after the author's death goes beyond the original purpose. Think of a best-selling author's estate or something that continues raking in cash even after the author is long dead. This goes against the original purpose as stated in the stimulus.
for me the stimulus said it was to give authors an opportunity to gain financial reward, not that they would get it.
You have to think about what is going beyond the original purpose of a copyright. If author's are willing to circulate their ideas without financial reward (meaning, also without a copyright), then this is not about the copyright itself going beyond its purpose. Does that help?
You have to think about how the copyright is going beyond its purpose of circulating ideas bc of the financial reward incentive, but the other answers are talking about other tangential ideas that aren't directly about the copyright itself.
Doesn't E contradicts the stimulus? The stimulus says that the copyright was a 'temporary' grant, but how can copyright can "hold for many years after the author's death"?
I actually knew about this copyright problem before LOL (not the question itself but how copyright lasts many years)
Ugh. I chose C which I feel stupid for after the explanation. In my head, I thought we could safely assume that copyright laws can affect a work's ability to be published -- hence ruining its original intent to circulate ideas. If you can't get something published because your work was copyrighted, how is your work going to be circulated? That was my logic.
I had a 'fork found in kitchen' moment the second i read E
I knew it was E on the actual and BR and still chose B!
E is the only answer where 'copywrites' is the subject
* copyrights ha