Copyright infringement of software

Theft in Music Counter Although some suppose that illegally downloading music is detrimental to an artist’s and the music industry’s monetary gains, many can argue that illegal downloads do not damage earnings, but in fact allows profits to expand.With the widespread diffusion of illegal downloads, the excessive growth of piracy leads an artist's income to plummet (qtd. in The Theft) and in turn corrupts the revenue earned by the music industry (qtd.in Developing an Argument). With an artist…

states that you can use it for criticism, parody, news reporting, and teaching. Which this video is following for education purposes. Although he is using clips from different disney movies and such, the clips are not too long to be considered copyright infringement. And he didn't use enough clips for it to be copying too. He made the video a mashup of different disney movie clips, which had made this into a transformative way to explain fair use. Even though the video contained disney clips…

central message of Lawrence Lessig's video "Do copyright Laws Stiffle Creativity" describes how copyright infringement is impeding the centuries old practice of people coming together, and dancing and singing to the popular music of the day. Illustrating his point, Lawrence shows scenes from YouTube videos, created by average people, showing themselves or people they know, emulating the dance moves of recording artists while that recording artist's copyright song is playing. In some instances…

A recent case that has exploded into the social media world, is the trademark case between, multibillion dollar corporation, Walt Disney Studios and famous DJ/musician ‘Deadmau5’ aka Joel Zimmerman. The legal dispute raged many fans supporting Zimmerman’s defence as Disney claimed that the signature mouse ears used in Zimmerman’s logo was “nearly identical in appearance, connotation, and overall commercial impression” to their own “iconic” mouse ears which Disney uses in there ‘Mickey Mouse’…

Committing Transcription Theft Students may ask the question about how written or transcript of material can be stolen. This to many professors or peer reviewers assess transcription theft as plagiarism, which is known to be the misuse of other peoples work to be depicted as one’s own work. Illegally statement or trying to convince readers such as professors, teachers, peer reviewers, etcetera; that the written material given was of your own work and ideas when in fact knowing it came from other…

Prisoners with good behavior should have the privilege to use MP3 players, this will benefit both the inmate and the facility. Prisoners with good behavior should be allowed to listen to music to calm them down. Sometimes prisoners get frustrated and get in fights and when they get stopped by the guards, their enragement increases because they can't take out the anger they have. Music can help people calm down, so having an MP3 player will help them calm down and avoid violent situations.…

I. Newsflash’s use of Schwarzenegger’s image and likeness will be protected under the fair use provision in California’s Right of Publicity because it does pass the transformative test for works of comment and criticism, but not under works of artistic expression. The main legislation pertinent to this case is the California Civil Code § 3344 (a) and (d), which states: (a) Any person who knowingly uses another’s name, voice, signature, photograph, or likeness, in any manner, on or in products,…

to prevent copyright infringement, opponents to these two acts found legitimate political arguments to counter. PIPA did have more methods to prevent Internet Piracy, so the notion of it limiting U.S. Constitutional rights is slightly understandable. Even though actions made by the U.S. government have broken some ground in the fight against online piracy, the creativity of those that oppose these attempts shows that newer (more innovative) action is needed in order to prevent copyright…

Copyright has many rules when it comes to the music industry. If producers aren’t careful then they may just end up with copyright penalties ranging from $200 to $150,000 for each stolen piece, court costs, the song can be taken down and the person that illegally used someone’s original work can go to jail. Music sampling can easily violate copyright terms if producers don’t get the correct permission. Music Sampling is when a music producer takes a few notes or maybe even a whole course from an…

Mark Twain himself has said, “Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet”. This message sings true even today with the world’s current laws. Mark Twain would have no knowledge that his statement would be a sort of prophecy. Today’s copyright laws prevent the creativity of content creators all around the world. With laws prohibiting sharing of media and contradicting the laws of fair use, we as individuals are prevented from cultural exchanges and…