Anti-copyright

Purpose At the end of my presentation, the audience will favor purchasing entertainment, as opposed to illegally downloading pirated material. Introduction Let’s be honest, we’ve all downloaded a form of pirated entertainment at least once in our lifetimes. It could’ve been your favorite pop album, or a 20 minute TV show you’re enjoying at the moment. But what we fail to realize is how it actively hurts the creators, and everyone involved. Illegally downloaded entertainment hurts many without…

Defender of copyright infringers Joe Hickster made it his mission to make people believe that movie pirates should not be penalized. In essence, he makes it seem okay for people to infringe copyrighted materials because they can get away with it. So basically, he's one of the reasons why the entertainment business is struggling with piracy. Hickster is responsible for keeping infringers from facing the consequences of their actions. He runs a blog called ACS Bore that was set up to undermine…

Copyright Laws: Are Web Photos Protected? If the computer and website allows one to download a photo, is this individual committing copyright infringement? Possibly, yes. Copyright laws are confusing to almost everyone, including the artists and composers, and/or the creator of this image or intellectual property, as well as the one who wants to download this composition, no matter the reason. There are exceptions, such as teaching purposes, ‘fair use’, 'public domain ', as well as for…

Since the dawn of time, the controversial debate on whether copyright piracy has a negative or positive effect on the entertainment industry, has been going on. Copyright piracy is "the action of duplicating, taking, or the usage of copyright material without permission" as defined by the Motion Picture Association (MPA) (ehow). Copyright piracy in the Entertainment industry ranges anywhere from illegal downloading an MP3 off a torrent website, to illegally streaming a TV show not available on…

Should the artist's music in advertise be a normal thing? I oppose this idea that the advertising business should just be able to use musician's music without their consent. There are two reasons why I don't support this idea. One reason is because Internet services that stream music are taking the place of buying the music which decreases the sales of CDs, records, and cassettes which have been sold over the years. Another reason why I don't support this idea is because any loss in album sales…

has been exaggerated to be an instrument of theft, thus leading to the downfall of the music industry. However, thanks to file sharing, users have been exposed to music they would have otherwise never known existed. File sharing of intellectual copyrights…

things to look at on the broad spectrum, such as unsigned bands, popularity achieved through media sharing, the similarities to tape recording, and most certainly the often crude copyright laws. These laws were established in a time before computers and - while bills like the Digital Millennium Copyright Act are making copyright relative to today’s technology - most of the rulings turn out as extremes. Programs that obviously aid in piracy can escape a court case unscratched; or record labels…

writings and discoveries” (U.S. Copyright Office). Formerly, claims were registered by clerks of U.S. district courts, however in today’s time the Copyright office is a separate department of the library of congress. The mission of the Copyright Office is to promote creativity by administering and sustaining an effective national copyright system and since 1870; the Copyright Office has registered more than 33,654,000 claims to copyright and mask works (U.S. Copyright Office). From Michael…

Copyright laws have grown to become a very prominent issue in this country. As the number of developers, artists, and other cretaors increases, the more subjects we have available to compare to other objects, the higher chances there are that two of said objects will be considered similar enough that one of the, or even perhaps both parties involved will feel cheated by the other, giving context on the increasing amount of copyright laws and trials. The cases of Sony 's Betamax and Grokster 's…

Plagiarism and Copyright What is plagiarism? Plagiarism is possessed the wrong way and stole and announced language, thoughts, ideas, or the wording of others. Plagiarism is also the unauthorized use or copying of excessive words, ideas of others. Moreover, plagiarism is not simply identical copy of the word, but also includes the meaning of both works. How it can be avoided? To avoid plagiarism, I strictly abide by self-written text of my own and then cite the sources that I reference. In…