Copyright, wasn’t always copyright. So what led us to copyright? Intellectual property and the ideas of property go back to the beginnings of civilization. Property was originally tangible therefore there was no need to provide the sense of ownership because what was yours you had. Because there was no form of writing or even an alphabet at that at the beginning of civilization the idea of copyright did not enter their minds because no problems arises from this. The way things are addressed and taken care of is when a problem arises. If there was no writing then there was no one stealing other peoples work and claiming it for their own. Hence there was no need to come up with a “right” to prevent that from happening. With writing or any form of notation came with the need to develop a private property ownership. But what opens up the idea that you can have copyrights? The invention of the printing press. What Neil Kleinamn talks about in Chapter 4, is after the invention of the printing press, we get the notion of copyright. The idea of copyright was established from the medium of printing. The idea of patents follows the motto established by copyright and the same thing goes with trademark. The same thing goes for patents and trademarks. With an established government and peoples individualization, is followed by the right to your own ideas. In the beginning of civilization these problems didn’t arise because the idea of surviving was their only concern. Now that we have evolved into social beings competing to be the best, the idea of surviving is a simple one, and the idea of excelling becomes our focus.