Copyright law

We all have seen what the love for music has done; it brought us together, cheered us, enlightened us, and romanticized us. It seems to not be the case anymore. The music industry has killed our music; it has deprived us from the warmth of music. It has turned our artistry into a monopoly. Although, it has brought massive amount of people together, it has also brought the destruction of uniqueness. Millions of people listen to the same thing that comes in the radio, not knowing the music they…

Hactivism as a process has a dual-edged character. The organised activity exposes the “transparency and accountability” (Diamond 71) of global power exploitation. However, such methods are seen questionable in the accountability and transparency of their practice(s). The main concern with hactivism is the preconceived notions of its values are translated offline as vigilantism. However, the whole concept of vigilantism is based on the idea of not condoning individual action to exercise…

There are millions of illegal downloads made every day. If one Piracy sight gets closed two more will pop back up. The internet is so full of piracy sights that there is no way to shut them all down. With internet constantly evolving copyright protection will not mean anything. Anyone who knows enough about computers can download what they want for free. Piracy is not an actual crime. When someone pirates, they didn’t actually steal it because the creator still has it. People get the…

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…

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…

corporation claims they own (Shamoo & Resnik, 2009, p. 167). Therefore, there are different types of intellectual property rights that are recognized by the United States law (Shamoo & Resnik, 2009, p. 173). Consequently, laws pertaining to intellectual property rights have only been implemented since the 1980s, which these laws are of the Boyh-Dole Act of 1980 and the Technology Transfer Act of 1986 (Shamoo & Resnik, 2009, p. 170). As a result, intellectual property can have huge financial…

licensed or protected of one’s creativity or innovation that are fit for being protected under country law or worldwide treaties. Intellectual property protects drawing, movies music and other different creative and artistic works. The term Copy right alludes to the official right given to the holder for the assurance of their unique works like model drawing, movies sounds or in an alternate word Copyright can be utilized to keep one gathering from duplicating the work of an alternate The term…

and 2009” (Adkins, n.d.). Illegal downloading is such a large problem that groups such as the RIAA, or the Recording Industry Association of America, have formed to represent the music artists and composers, like Taylor Swift, who are having their copyrights infringed on when people pirate their music. However, music piracy is still consistently done across the United States with about “20 million people still [getting] music through peer-to-peer file-sharing” (Faughnder,2015). As…

The music industry has lost over $12.5 billion to music piracy (Adkins), making it clear that the intellectual property laws in place are not adequately doing their job. Although some people have faced the legal consequences of music pirating, there are just too many people getting away with it. We need to change how people ethically and morally think about the issue and…

Copyright infringement is an issue that has claimed attention in the struggle to maintain fair use of copyrighted works for over a decade. In North America alone, it was estimated that file sharing had grown by 44 percent, a percentage that was conjectured to shoot to 51 percent by 2019 . According to the magnitude of the problem, this paper seeks to explore the effects of the digital millennium copyright act of 1998. The article will discuss the five titles under digital millennium copyright…