Copyright law

boasts heightened copyright laws that claim to protect free speech and creativity while it actually accomplishes the opposite. Online service providers, or OSPs, are the target of SOPA legislation. SOPA places liability for copyright law infringing content on innocent corporations that merely provide a platform for users to share content. Most importantly SOPA will tear down copyright safe harbors that provide protection to users and OSPs who have inadvertently committed copyright infringement…

19, 2013, he discussed a man very near to him by the name of Aaron Swartz. Lessig discussed what Aaron did, and the role of law and justice in a digital age in connection to Aaron. Lessig’s address, in particular his comments made about copyright fith within Lakoff’s “nurturant” parent frame and what Diane Gurman said about it. Lessig portrays today’s modern copyright laws as a hindrance to the greater public good and his desire to change them to promote a more open and equal opportunity for the…

property rights being subjected to uniform laws is a compelling argument, but I don’t think it is a realistic one. It sounds like an ideal situation where no matter what country you are in, you know what to expect. Honestly, I think it might be impossible or at least would take years to successfully carry out. There are too many differences in the laws across the nation and some countries may have to change their current laws to comply with uniform laws causing more work. Different treatment…

time. In this case, the Copyright Act states that the authors of a joint work are co-owners of any copyright in the work holding “undivided interests in work, despite any differences in each author’s contribution.”…

secret that file sharing, legal or illegal, is on the rise. For most folks in their twenties today, they may not be aware of a world without piracy. In fact, they may not even be aware that certain kinds of file sharing is illegal and punishable by law. To understand why file sharing is so prevalent in modern society, the background of this kind of sharing needs to be explored. Napster began in June of 1999 by Shawn Fanning, John Fanning, and Sean Parker as a peer-to-peer file sharing system.…

unforeseen problems and changes to the way popular nusic culture interacts, posse, and store music. This easy accessibility has led to the rise of music piracy. Music piracy is the copying and distribution of copies, of music, which the author(s) or copyright-holder does not give permission. Many did not see the detriment…

Monkey Selfies: Questioning Copyright Laws and Constitutional Applications Last week, American animal rights organization the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, more commonly known as PETA, filed a novel lawsuit in San Francisco’s Federal Court on behalf of a macaque monkey for the copyright ownership over “selfies” it took dating back to 2011. The suit requests a court order to give PETA allowance to administer proceeds from the photos to benefit the monkey and the macaque reserve to…

Executive Summary This issue paper identifies problems of bargaining inequality in relation to consent provisions, sections 195AW, 195AWB and 195AXJ in Copyright Act 1968 (Cth) (hereafter “the Act”). The pivotal analysis in this paper is if artists’ moral rights, especially the young visual artists under age of 30 in the Queensland Youth Artists Collective, are effectively protected against the inequality under the provisions. The paper applies the theory of liberalism to examine the…

Infringement of copyright is an uncouth affair. scholastic infringement of copyright is an even more an uncouth problem. Erudite infringement of copyright is an exponentially serious and uncouth problem since people need to be able to not plagiarize. So lecturers teach their students to not plagiarize, after all if the students didn’t know how to not plagiarize their life would be difficult, so it makes sense that schools invest in plagiarism detection software so that they know that their…

twenty-seven clearly states that, “Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary, or artistic production of which he is the author.” However, according to the article, “Happy Birthday’ Copyright Invalidated by Judge,”…