Copyright law

There is a difference between copying and remixing someone’s work. Now copying is taking someone’s work exactly and saying it is theirs. Kirby Ferguson once said, “Our creativity comes from without, not from within. We are not self-made. We are dependent on one another. Admitting this to ourselves is not an embrace of mediocrity, or derivativeness. It is liberation from our misconceptions. And it is an incentive to not expect so much from ourselves, and to simply begin." While copying is an…

File Sharing By: Ella Bates 5th Hour DLMD File sharing is the practice of distributing information or providing information throughout the internet. Some examples would be, pictures, videos, documents, school work, and online books. But, there are different ways for you to share files. Some examples may include, peer file sharing and file sink and sharing services. Peer sharing, also known as P2P, allows them to access “media files” like books, movies, and…

England’s Royal Navy. From 1655 to 1670, England’s navy and commissioned privateering vessels, continuously raided Spain’s Caribbean territories and merchant ships for goods. But because, both the navy and privateer ships were working under the law, the acts of violence they committed were not and are still not considered acts of piracy. Perhaps it is due to the fact that most pirates were of lower class, and that it was the authority figures who deemed them pirates.…

INTRODUCTION The IP law of Australia is made to promote the innovations and also protect those businesses that develop the original intellectual property for having the benefits of being competitive. In Australia, there are also participants from a number of international agreements which protects the Act in the other countries. IP Australia is the agency of government which administrates the legislation and rights of IP. The present study is focused on the description of various laws related to…

A Reading Response of “Free TV: File-Sharing and the Value of Television” by Michael Z. Newman Topic: The topic of Newman’s (2012) article presents the ever-changing value of TV shows as a public and private commercial enterprise. Modern TV shows have become private commercial property of TV networks, but the availability of “pirated” TV shows in P2P file-sharing networks has decreased their value. Ironically, the success of P2P file sharing has legitimized TV as a new “negotiation” of value in…

Dark tourism, also known as grief tourism, is not a popular form of tourism in most countries but has occurred ever since people have the ability to travel. Within the last ten years, dark tourism has become increasingly popular with tourists, with websites like www.thecabinet.com naming the various dark attractions around the world (Dark Destinations, 2007). The term ‘dark tourism’ was coined by Malcolm Foley and J. John Lennon to describe “…the phenomenon which encompasses the presentation and…

One’s music library, whatever genre it may be in, is the soundtrack of one’s life. Music now is more relevant than ever. There are more and more songs and artists debuting what they have into the collection of music that can now be available in the palm of the hand. Nearly all artists can be found with a quick Google search and in just a few clicks one can find a link to their most recent singles. One way to find music online nowadays is through internet music streaming. Music streaming is…

Annotated Bibliography Dean, Josh. "Let A Billion Streams Bloom." Fast Company 180 (2013): 104-127. Business Source Elite. Web. 8 May 2015. The article features the music streaming service Spotify, cofounded by Daniel Ek in Sweden. As of November 1, 2013, over a third of the population in Sweden use Spotify, which allows unlimited access to about 25 million songs. In March 2013, Spotify registered 24 million users, including 6 million paid subscribers. The company has paid over 500 million…

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…