Copyright infringement of software

Copyright has been a controversial topic since the day it was created. It’s intentionally written for protecting intelligent properties, yet turns out causing a lot of pernicious side effects. In the editorial “In Defense of Piracy” of Lawrence Lessig, he criticized that the “copyrights wars” chokes creativity and criminalizes people who share stuff online. He provided an example which was about a mother posted her 13-month-old son dancing video with Prince’s music playing on the background on…

French decided to create a law in order to help music industry’s revenue from decline any further. The law is called Hadopi and its objectives are: “1) to enforce the copyright law on the Internet through legal actions against violators, 2) to educate Internet users about illegal versus legal activities with respect to the copyright law, and 3) to facilitate the development of Internet services providing legal access to copyrighted works” (Alexis 327). This scholarly article is on the side that…

Introduction I have been asked to provide a legal opinion for Tony in regards to copyright infringement. The issues are whether there can be any actions taken against, Alice, James, Local Political Candidate, or the Television Station. To assess Tony 's likelihood of success against these individuals and organisations we need to consider the relevant authorities and their application to each case at hand. Once this has occurred any defenses will be raised and assessed in turn to each individual.…

in accordance with the terms. According to the records, however, all the copyrighted materials was after a copyright notice. In 1977, Fantastic Fakes realized that the copyright notice used by the defendant was incorrect and they filed a case with the US District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. The plaintiff claimed that the defendant was not liable for infringement of copyrights for failure to affix the proper notice of the products they distribute. The plaintiff made claims on six…

is your opinion on downloading material from the internet which could include copyrighted material? What are your ethical and moral stand points? Use the Kim Dot Com court case as your guide. The Ethical and Moral Stand Points for Downloading Copyright Material Gillian Ellison Southern Institute of Technology – Invercargill Campus | Table of Contents | FAQs | | Rationale | Sections | Section Headings | Title | Authors and Affiliation | Abstract| Introduction| Methods| Results| Discussion |…

are both are the reproduction of identical copies of authentic products by a trademark brand. These two terms have been used as synonyms in the literature by many authors. However, it is stated that the word ‘piracy’ is mainly related and used for software and fixed medium content such as film, movie and music recordings. On the other hand, ‘counterfeiting’ is usually referred to…

Music has become increasingly available, beginning with the rapid distribution of sheet music to the invention of the record player to having any song in the world available from an online streaming service. Music has become a daily part of people’s lives, whether an individual is consciously aware of it or not. Music can be heard being played in the background of a commercial, out loud on the speakers at a sporting event, or played on the radio while driving in ones’ car. The prior…

organisation set up to copyright the music of their members. IMRO’s role is to promote their member’s music and look after the royalties involved in the music industry. Some examples of who they represent are music publishers, composers and songwriters. Three functions of IMRO: • IMRO copyright’s the music of their members, which usually consists of a music performance. IMRO want to protect the work of their members both nationally and internationally. The money earned through copyright is…

Podcasting is the latest in on-the-go, on-demand technology. Basically, a podcast is a digital recording of audio or web/visual content, made available on the Internet for downloading to a personal computer or MP3 player. A lot like radio on demand, podcasting actually offers far more options in terms of content and programming than radio does. And best of all, with podcasting, you can download whatever programming you want and listen to it whenever and wherever you want. This anywhere, anytime…

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…