Copyright law

than you will have to face legal problems and can get you in a big trouble. So its always good to find out the photo you are using who owns it and if the owner does not give the permission to use if than do not use the images. Copyright: Copyright law is basically the law which protects your data. For example,…

Music is a vague industry because it is difficult to protect creative rights due to similar ideas and there is no quantifiable way of measuring creative thought. Therefore there are laws in place, which govern the use published material and cannot be copied or utilized unless they have given permission. In an article titled “file sharing on the internet” by Gemma Collins and Tom Flanagan, they claim, “In the case of material property…

and the character of the use, including whether such use is of commercial nature or nonprofit educational purposes”. (cite).This means to protect your transformative work there must be a meaning behind it that doesn’t cross the line of breaking the law. The purpose of my transformative work is to sell lipstick with my logo stamped on it in stores such as Nike and Adidas where you find the NBA clothing sold the most. Secondly, the “nature of the copyrighted work” (cite) means the intended use of…

Has Sadie broken the law? The Computer Misuse Act 1990 of United Kingdom clearly stated that (1) A person will face legal obligations if— (a) She/he accesses a computer to perform any function intentionally to secure access to any file or data held in any computer; (b) if she/he is not authorized to access the computer; and (c) She/he knows at the time when he causes the computer to perform the function that is the case. So according to that law she has surely broken the law and she could face…

Music has always been a major part of the Australian media. Homan & Mitchell (cited in Cunningham 2010, p.219) states that perhaps more than any other medium, popular music intersects with and influences the uses of other media in everyday life. Whiteoak (cited in Cunningham 2010, p. 217) points out that popular music involves the different forms of music and music making that are accessible and enjoyed by a large number of people. The paper will focus on the changing nature of content,…

In the case of Monge v Maya Magazine, Inc. the plaintiffs are Latin American celebrities Noelia Lorenzo Monge and Jorge Reynoso, with Maya Magazine, Inc., as the defendant. Monge, a pop singer and model, had gone to great lengths in order to keep her marriage to Reynoso a secret from the public with the objective of preserving her public image as a ‘young, single, pop singer,’ as mentioned in the Monge v Maya Magazine Inc. Appellate case documents. Oscar Viqueira, a paparazzo and occasional…

ongoing debate about reinforcing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Fair use is being confused for piracy and copyright infringement, which can be devastating to someone's career. First, to understand this problem copyright and fair use need to be defined. To have something protected by copyright it must be recorded in some way, it must be original, and it must be creative (Popek 8). Fair use allows a creator to make something with copyright protected material, as long as the content has a…

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…

Loss Nyatombek Modi Copyright © 2015 by Nyatombek Modi. Created by Nyatombek Modi ISBN: Softcover 978-1-5035-0332-8 eBook 978-1-5035-0327-4 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner. This is a work of fiction. Names, characters,…

Illustrators and artists should be allowed to use photographs under the copyright “Fair Use” without having to pay any royalties to, or ask permission from to the original photographer or copyright holder. If the new work is transformative of the original photograph, then artists should be able to use photographs in their work because they serve as inspiration just as other art forms do. Shepard Fairey was born in Charleston, South Carolina in 1970 (“Obey Giant” CV). He graduated with a B.A.…