Trademark infringement

“wrongful appropriation” and “stealing and publication” of another author’s “language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions”, and the representation of them as one’s own original work. Plagiarism itself is not a crime, but can constitutes copyright infringement. The idea remains problematic with unclear rules. The modern concept of plagiarism as immoral and originality as an ideal emerged in Europe only in the 18th century, particularly with the Romantic movement. 2. Aim The aim of this study is to…

Remember when it was considered a mortal sin for a band to license¬¬¬ their music for use in an advertisement? Those days are long gone. Inevitably, the world evolves and those who refuse to conform to the new standard are left in the dust wondering how they steered wrong. MTV changed everything when it first aired; Napster did the same two decades later; Apple continued the trend with the introduction of the iPod and iTunes. Artists need to keep up with the exponentially changing way that the…

Online Piracy in the United States Thousands of people every day pirate movies, music, and video games in the United States. Online Piracy is the illegal downloading of any online item that is meant to be bought, but is pirated so anyone can get it for free. Online piracy in today’s society is considered a major crime, and if caught it can lead to serious repercussions. Online piracy should not be considered a crime, and should not be handled like America is handling it right now. In today’s…

I believe that the band should stay independent (Indie) and produce themselves in this business because in today’s society you have more of artists/bands going the independent route where they can see with their own eyes of where the money is going into and how they can put into use for their well-being. The independent route for artists/bands plays a good model for them because they have all rights their own music and have the control to release at any time without having someone telling them…

Theft in Music Counter Although some suppose that illegally downloading music is detrimental to an artist’s and the music industry’s monetary gains, many can argue that illegal downloads do not damage earnings, but in fact allows profits to expand.With the widespread diffusion of illegal downloads, the excessive growth of piracy leads an artist's income to plummet (qtd. in The Theft) and in turn corrupts the revenue earned by the music industry (qtd.in Developing an Argument). With an artist…

Does the Sharing of Music Files Through the Internet Violate Copyright Laws? Michael Gibbons, October 6, 2015, Issue 6 Facts: The issue at hand is to determine if sharing music files through the internet violates copyright laws. It was found to be illegal to share music through the internet. In the case MGM Studios v. Grokster a unanimous decision was held that Grokster was to “be held liable for violating copyright laws by providing peer-to-peer file sharing software to the public,” (Katsh 98)…

that you can use it for criticism, parody, news reporting, and teaching. Which this video is following for education purposes. Although he is using clips from different disney movies and such, the clips are not too long to be considered copyright infringement. And he didn't use enough clips for it to be copying too. He made the video a mashup of different disney movie clips, which had made this into a transformative way to explain fair use. Even though the video contained disney clips the whole…

The central message of Lawrence Lessig's video "Do copyright Laws Stiffle Creativity" describes how copyright infringement is impeding the centuries old practice of people coming together, and dancing and singing to the popular music of the day. Illustrating his point, Lawrence shows scenes from YouTube videos, created by average people, showing themselves or people they know, emulating the dance moves of recording artists while that recording artist's copyright song is playing. In some…

Committing Transcription Theft Students may ask the question about how written or transcript of material can be stolen. This to many professors or peer reviewers assess transcription theft as plagiarism, which is known to be the misuse of other peoples work to be depicted as one’s own work. Illegally statement or trying to convince readers such as professors, teachers, peer reviewers, etcetera; that the written material given was of your own work and ideas when in fact knowing it came from other…

Prisoners with good behavior should have the privilege to use MP3 players, this will benefit both the inmate and the facility. Prisoners with good behavior should be allowed to listen to music to calm them down. Sometimes prisoners get frustrated and get in fights and when they get stopped by the guards, their enragement increases because they can't take out the anger they have. Music can help people calm down, so having an MP3 player will help them calm down and avoid violent situations.…