Accused Of Copyright Infringement In Violation Of The Copyright Act

Piracy has become a major issue in the United States. For every motion picture that has been featured in theaters also has been pirated onto the Internet the next day, and for every new musical album that is released, yet there is a free torrent file of the album within the same hour. Even though these online pirates steal music and movies from other companies and make a drastic profit, yet these “rogue” websites receive 53 billions visits a year from across the globe according to Creative America. The persistence of the thieves that break copyright laws of the productions has lead the entertainment business to place a definitive complaint to the U.S. government of the constant notion of piracy. While the notion of piracy was not left

As an overview, the Family Entertainment and Copyright Act (S.167) was established in 2005. The policy consists of several different and revised subtitles within

If a defamatory statement made of a class or group can reasonably be understood to refer to every member of it, each one has a cause of action. In Pryke v The Advertiser Newspapers Ltd (1984) 37 SASR 175, a 'Letter to the Editor' published in The Advertiser criticised the conduct of proceedings by an Industrial Commissioner, without specifying by name which of the 4 Commissioners had been concerned. All 4 Commissioners succeeded on the basis that the letter was defamatory of each of them. In Bjelke Petersen v Warburton [1987] 2 QdR 465, the Leader of the Opposition made statements about the 'government's corruption and its mismanagement', and said he would be asking questions about 'which Ministers had their hands in the till'. This was held capable of being defamatory of each of the 18 members of the Ministry. However, if the class is composed of too many people, then the matter will be incapable of identifying any particular individual.

FACTS: The defendant, Peter Junger, a computer law professor at Case Western Reserve University challenged the United States government's regulations of encryption software. The regulations in place prevented U.S. citizens from being able to export encryption source code (or publishing/disseminating) over the internet. Junger was concerned that international students might not be able to join his encryption technology class that he taught and that any encrypting software he creates and wants to post on his

In the case of The Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency (Access Copyright) vs. York University, I believe that the plaintiff, Access Copyright, will not be successful in their lawsuit against the defendant, York University.

6. Issues related to the following: * Copying images, diagrams, films, DVDs for research or study

CASE FACTS: The Defendant, Miller, was convicted of violating the California statute in conducting a mass mailing campaign to advertise the sale of sexually explicit “adult” material. The California statute prohibits the sale of aggressive, sexually explicit materials to unwilling recipients. Recipients of the Defendant’s mass mailing campaign complained of receiving the brochures, initiating the legal proceedings.

The plaintiff is a gaming studio that developed a video game that uses an online, multi-player platform, which includes audio and video functionalities so that players (alone and in groups) can watch television and listen to audio streams, in game.

Plaintiff Argued: MGM’s argument was focused mostly on the fact that Grokster was aware that the users of their software use it primarily to share. And download copyrighted content. Another argument that MGM used was that when the defendant began to distribute their software, they heavily marketed the fact that it could be used to download and share copyrighted content, and beyond even the marketing they would encourage their users to download and share copyrighted content.

Copyrights of distribution of Dallas Buyers Club (DBC) v iiNet Limited case over infringement of copyrights. They complain that their copyrights were infringed by 4726 internet users downloading and then sharing their work via torrent websites without paying for the privilege. DBC LLC 's, Voltage Pictures, used a German-based firm Macek Eye UG to find out users sharing the film using Bit Torrent and found out 4,726 IP addresses. The case was filed before The Federal Court of Australia requesting the personal details of the infringers linked to the IP addresses to 6 Internet Service Providers (ISP) to recover the damages of copies download and upload by infringers.(DBC) wanted to recover the cost of the purchase of a single copy of the film, for each copy download. A "licence fee" for each person found to have also uploaded the film without copyrights and the court cost for expenses in retrieving each downloader’s name.

This case was quickly followed by another well-know copyright infringement through free software situation. As John Zelezny’s text, Communications Law: Liberties, Restraints, and the Modern Media, notes, “two companies, Grokster and StreamCast Networks, distributed free software that allowed users to share digital files through peer-to-peer networks where personal computers communicated directly with each other and not through a central service” (Communications Law: Liberties, Restraints and the Modern Media, 2011, p. 360).

OPINION: I certainly agree with the final court ruling, the intent to obtain profit from the illegal distribution of copyrighted works is clear. They basically made the infringement easier for people, they gave them the tools and knew what their users could do with them. They used this opportunity to make profit out of advertisement, thinking they could get away with it.

Intellectual property represents ideas created by minds of humans that require certain rights for their use. Intellectual property gives companies a competitive advantage and attracts the attention of other business partners and investors (Lee, 2016). With such importance, it is necessary for the law to protect these ideas from being used by unauthorized individuals. To shield from this, trade secrets, patents, and copyrights are used to protect the ownership of intellectual property (Legal Information Institute).

Identify and discuss these copyright challenges in the modern digital economy using examples from case law.

The enduring fascination for people is that they want law to be flexible in the matter of copyright. This was clearly expressed by Ed Mayo, Chief Executive of Consumer Focus quoting "UK copyright law is the oldest, but also the most out of date. Before addressing the question it’s important to look at the history and definition of UK Copyright law. It has grown from this beginning to form the main legal basis for the international publishing industry, which contributes so much to literature, learning and culture not only in the UK but it has crossed different nation’s borders.