Knowledge sharing

The interviewees claim that file sharing and piracy promotes creativity, because intellectual property owners need to come up with new and creative ways to earn a profit from their work. Additionally, the interviewees say, piracy is promoting creativity in the general population as well. File sharing has created thousands of new singers, rappers, and DJs, because anyone can take a copyrighted song, and remix it, or use parts of it in their own songs. Free file sharing, the interviewees argue,…

This idea of trading or sharing has put top music executives and artist, along with other music business partners, in a tough holding. Illegal downloading has categorized music as a commodity and not an art, thus creating this difficult way of life for the creators of it. New technology…

Piracy Piracy is defined as the copying and distributing of copies of a piece of music for which the composer, recording artist, or copyright-holding record company did not give consent. (Neuwirth, 2014) It is difficult to know exactly when and where the first instances of piracy occurred but there is evidence to show that composers as old as Beethoven where affected. “Both he (Beethoven) and his publisher had to contend with piracy by rival publishers who brought out editions of their own.”…

The music of the younger generation always seems to strike fear into the hearts of the older generation. One only has to think of the beginnings of Rock and Roll and how the older crowd predicted youthful promiscuity, violence and anarchy. It’s easy to see why the idea of censoring music came about and how that idea still plays out in the music of today’s youth. One only has to listen to certain songs on the radio today to find that the “bleep” of censorship is still in fashion. Oddly enough…

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…

The illegal downloading or called torrenting, which means sharing the movie & TV series through peer-to-peer on the internet, has been an open secret for a long time. Many people use it as a tool to entertain themselves, but there are also many people against it. Though all these argumentative thoughts from different people, the article “Is downloading really stealing? The ethics of digital piracy” by the author Christian Barry gives his answer very persuasively Firstly, the use of logo seems…

Does Barbro have the right of Re-sale ? In the Usedsoft case the CJEU held that the grant of an unlimited license together with the possibility to download a copy of a computer program is tantamount to a first sale, which exhausts the right of distribution, so that a further resale of that copy cannot be opposed by the right holder in this case ,Network Inc . This is to mean that Barbro would enjoy the benefits of being part of a first sale contract and as such she can resell the albums…

How has file sharing in the digital age affected the music industry? What is a file sharing? Recent developments in information technologies have revolutionised the way we listen to music and share it with people around. The new cutting-edge technologies, such as file sharing, has weakened copyright protection, causing the increase of the amount of music shared on the Internet illegally violating copyrights. As a result, the copyright-related companies have lost customers and revenue. This…

infringement can never be stopped. As the Copyright Amendment Act, 2012 restricts the removal of DRM from all copyrighted media, there will always be users who will crack the DRM and share their tricks with the others. Restriction of illegal file sharing is also very difficult to be enforced. There are currently a large number of users who illegitimately obtain music and movies via net,…

'The law can never keep pace with technological change ' Area of Technology: Digital Copyright and the Law The role of law in regulating your area of technology The role of law in digital copyright is to ensure that the integrity of people’s work is upheld by ensuring their created content is not accessed nor distributed illegally. In the cases where copyright is infringed then it is the role of the law to ensure that the correct punishment is administered to the person or group that has…