Trademark infringement

Piracy should not be allowed, due to the fact it’s using others hard work carelessly. People everyday dedicate their time and effort into projects that others could easily claim as theirs and take advantage of. Taking a stand against misdeeds such a piracy could prevent future misunderstandings. When people secure their property, it is more than likely to prevent fraud such as piracy. As technology continues to advance, it becomes easier for others to claim work as theirs without going through…

Other argue stealing music takes away from the artist’s credibility, others realize free downloads create more exposure. Yet there are still artist who make the top with free downloads. On The Billboard Hot 100 Nelly seems to be number one when in that era people were still downloading music and probably downloading that song as well. The evidence shows that even with having free downloads Nelly, a famous artist, was still able to make number one in the charts for ten weeks. Even with illegal…

teaching… scholarship, or research’ is not considered an infringement” (Herzfeld 1). Therefore, if the utilization of copyrighted material in one’s own work is transformative enough to fall under one of these categories, it is considered “fair use” and a copyright infringement is not in place. However, these guidelines have yet to be completely solidified, and in fact, are often ignored by most companies and creators that seek to claim infringement upon others. One example of the ignorance of…

wrong. I am going to argue that fair use laws should be adjusted so that companies cannot take advantage of people the way they do now. Firstly, I would like to start by defining Copyright and Fair Use laws, as well as provide examples of proper infringement of these laws. A Copyright is the exclusive legal right, given to an originator or an assignee to print, publish, perform, film, or record literary, artistic, or musical…

Copyright in the Music Industry Copyright is the right that persists in a number of works. Copyright is created as soon as the piece of work is put into a material form. An idea cannot be copyrighted, only the expression of one can. In the UK, copyright is protected under the UK CDPA 1988 (Copyright, Designs and Patents Acts). This act protects the copyright of literary works, musical works, artistic works, dramatic works, films, sound recordings, broadcasts and typographical arrangements.…

Advanced Activity File Sharing is a practice of distributing or providing access to digital media, such as computer programs. For example, sending emails to other colleges. Like iCloud lets you save all your work to all you apple devices and lets you share the work. All file sharing, P2P, and bittorrent are all related. Both file sharing and P2P are used to download files. To avoid copyright copyright you should remove any peer to peer programs installed on your computer. Bittorrent is…

Many people love music want to listen to it as much as possible but it is really worth paying a dollar per song or 15 dollars for an album? Many people would say yes and some could say no but, who is to say which person appreciates music the most so for the people who don't want to pay that much they can either priate the songs for free where the artist gets no money or they can stream the music through as site like spotify and the artist will get paid a sum of money for each play. Though many…

In the 1980's we had cocaine. It was pure, cheap and plentiful. Now, due to Ronald Reagans infamous "war on drugs" campaign (among many other things), cocaine as we once knew, is long gone. However, addiction is a subtle beast. It's resilient in all its ways and finds new methods to persevere. In the modern age, we have our addictions, although it is not so much to cocaine. Instead, it's technology. Just look around anywhere in the world and you'll come across someone with their phone glued to…

One’s music library, whatever genre it may be in, is the soundtrack of one’s life. Music now is more relevant than ever. There are more and more songs and artists debuting what they have into the collection of music that can now be available in the palm of the hand. Nearly all artists can be found with a quick Google search and in just a few clicks one can find a link to their most recent singles. One way to find music online nowadays is through internet music streaming. Music streaming is…

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…