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Internet piracy is a controversial issue when it comes to whether or not it affects the entertainment industries since the start of twenty-first century. The scholarly article, written by Koster, called “Fighting Internet Piracy: The French Experience With The Hadopi Law”, is about internet piracy cause a decrease the revenue in music industry and the French decided to create a law in order to help music industry’s revenue from decline any further. The law is called Hadopi and its objectives…

Introduction I have been asked to provide a legal opinion for Tony in regards to copyright infringement. The issues are whether there can be any actions taken against, Alice, James, Local Political Candidate, or the Television Station. To assess Tony 's likelihood of success against these individuals and organisations we need to consider the relevant authorities and their application to each case at hand. Once this has occurred any defenses will be raised and assessed in turn to each individual.…

In 1977, Fantastic Fakes realized that the copyright notice used by the defendant was incorrect and they filed a case with the US District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. The plaintiff claimed that the defendant was not liable for infringement of copyrights for failure to affix the proper notice of the products they distribute. The plaintiff made claims on six counts followed by a claim for relief and damages. On the appeal however only the first and third counts were issues on the…

copyright infringement separately to fanfiction guidelines. These works would fall into the "criticism and commentary" side of the argument rather than secondary works that are true works of fanfiction. This side of the argument is in regard to someone who is a follower of the original work and wants to ask the "what if" or "what happens next" questions in response to the original work. The biggest picture in all of the debate about whether fanfiction is too close to copyright infringement to…

Music has become increasingly available, beginning with the rapid distribution of sheet music to the invention of the record player to having any song in the world available from an online streaming service. Music has become a daily part of people’s lives, whether an individual is consciously aware of it or not. Music can be heard being played in the background of a commercial, out loud on the speakers at a sporting event, or played on the radio while driving in ones’ car. The prior…

IMRO are an organisation set up to copyright the music of their members. IMRO’s role is to promote their member’s music and look after the royalties involved in the music industry. Some examples of who they represent are music publishers, composers and songwriters. Three functions of IMRO: • IMRO copyright’s the music of their members, which usually consists of a music performance. IMRO want to protect the work of their members both nationally and internationally. The money earned through…

Podcasting is the latest in on-the-go, on-demand technology. Basically, a podcast is a digital recording of audio or web/visual content, made available on the Internet for downloading to a personal computer or MP3 player. A lot like radio on demand, podcasting actually offers far more options in terms of content and programming than radio does. And best of all, with podcasting, you can download whatever programming you want and listen to it whenever and wherever you want. This anywhere, anytime…

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…

Americans perceive downloading music as an everyday act, but it’s actually quite a criminal action. Consequently, downloading music allows the public to listen to their favorite artist for free or for a small price. Stephen Seigel elaborates by saying, “Under the agreement, Napster will begin to charge a monthly fee for use of it’s service--$4.95 seems to be the number being tossed around-- though how the money is ultimately divvied up will surely be a source of future contention.” (“Nipping at…

The Holidays are now over and what better way to get back into the swing of things by watching a bad movie. Okay, bad might not be the best term to describe The Brain That Wouldn't Die, as it certainly isn't the worst movie I've witnessed before. Yes, the plot is paper thin and could've easily been trimmed down to a solid 20-minute episode of Twilight Zone or something similar, but overall I enjoyed the movie enough. However, the movie isn't the main reason to pick up Scream Factory's new…