Profit sharing

mid-2000s he released new songs on his own before the invention of music sharing web sites like Soundcloud. (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/23/arts/music/prince-music-technology-distribution.html?_r=0) The Internet has also caused problems in the way of giving out music. Online piracy took the music industry by storm with sources like Napster in 1999. (http://iml.jou.ufl.edu/projects/spring01/burkhalter/napster%20history.html) File sharing was the way people could share music without the…

courts. Nowadays, music downloading and peer-to-peer file-sharing are practices that have increased in giant steps as a result of the emerging technologies. The constant innovation of the websites and software has impacted the music and video industry in a way that thousands of norms and regulations have been created in order to protect others’ works, and prevent copyright infringement. The recording industry blames peer-to-peer file sharing for declining music sales and has manifested their…

its release date, then the studio and box office loses 19 percent of the revenue they would have obtained if the movie were not leaked. Fifth, studies show that the cause of the collapse of the record industry from 1998 to 2003 was because of file sharing. Sixth, MPAA, Motion Picture Association of America, roughly concluded that $16 billion of revenue is lost yearly to copyright of film, music, software and video. Lastly, NBC did a study where they removed all their materials off from iTunes.…

Music Piracy Pirates back in the 1800’s were known to sail the high seas, plunder ships, steal cargo, the list goes on. Pirates today are still around but they take a different form, they take the form of someone going on the internet and downloading a torrent of that catchy new song they heard on the radio or downloading an entire album from some no name artist that doesn’t have their album on Spotify yet. These pirates aren’t your traditional, pirates they’re music pirates. Music piracy hurts…

Yes, sharing music files through the internet does in fact violate copyright laws. Copyright gives limited monopolies to holders on the reproduction, display, and distribution of that copyrighted work. When you purchase copyrighted work, or it is given to you, you have limited use of it with no right of distributing it. You have every right to listen to the CD you have purchased and even let your friend borrow the disk, but you cannot give a copy of that CD to your friend without having the…

tasks and makes communication efficient. The Internet allows individuals to distribute data including peer-to-peer file sharing. Peer-to-peer file sharing is the sharing of digital media through the Internet. When an individual searches for digital media files through p2p software, they are given many options to choose from and download straight to their computer. Although file sharing is convenient and a lot of the times cost-free, many major concerns arise such as piracy and the downfall of…

We accept rides from strangers, get random people to complete mundane tasks for us and allow people we’ve never met to stay in our homes. Indeed, the sharing economy – peer-to-peer transactions conducted via the Internet and smartphones has changed how people arrange car rides, find vacation, pick up their laundry and more . We no longer think it taboo to get into cars with strangers, request someone to pick up our groceries or share our personal property with people we’ve never met. But how…

Music industries always complains about the “pirates” steal their music and profits by using downloading and uploading easily. However, the bill to require Internet service providers to stop websites which are posting illegal downloading music was stalled in Congress. Because many Internet service providers are fighting government…

through media sharing, the similarities to tape recording, and most certainly the often crude copyright laws. These laws were established in a time before computers and - while bills like the Digital Millennium Copyright Act are making copyright relative to today’s technology - most of the rulings turn out as extremes. Programs that obviously aid in piracy can escape a court case unscratched; or record labels can sue for ridiculous sums, as with the case involving the file-sharing program…

The artists loses money, and well as credit and praise if their work is taken and given out by file sharing. In addition to this in many cases people believe that the copyright policy has no purpose. “The fact is this very second some kid somewhere is taking my music, chopping it up, looking at it sideways, replaying it, and then calling it his own.”, said music producer Luke in the article “Laidback Luke Discusses The Legality of Sampling – Billboard.” (Rubinstein). Although this is true,…