Essay on International Copyright vs. Online Piracy

Malaysian Piracy Industry Though it isn’t the largest or the most lucrative business of its type, the Malaysian software piracy industry is arguably the boldest and most blatant in the world. Despite international pressure, government crackdowns, and attempts by focus groups, the industry survives and flourishes to this day. The purpose of this examination is to reveal what keeps the pirates running, what is being done to curb them, and ethical issues involving the unauthorized duplication

specialize services and equipments, and three studios for different customers to record album (Steelworks Studios, 2011). 2.13 Circulation: Circulation is third segment of music value chain. Usually, in this period, record companies can apply copyright, make contract with distribution agent and negotiate with live performance activities. On the other hands, promotion the produced music is necessary. The record companies can through the media like TV, internet, radio, and club to promote it. 2

Compiled by Dr. Bart Cammaerts and Dr. Nick Anstead Why pay if it’s free? Streaming, downloading, and digital music consumption in the “iTunes era” Theodore Giletti, MSc in Media & Communications Other dissertations of the series are available online here: http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/media@lse/mediaWorkingPapers/ Dissertation submitted to the Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science, August 2011, in partial fulfilment of the requirements

there was not a problem. The copyright laws of the United States provides for the artist to benefit from his/her intellectual property for a set period. Then the work goes into the public domain. However, this was not the case with Napster. The first problem was that they were allowing distribution of copyrighted work without permission or compensation to the artist. Second, it appears that they knowingly promoted their product once they were informed that copyright infringement was being practice

inventions, literary and artistic work; names, symbol and images used in commerce, trade. Intellectual property is divided into two kinds • Copyright: It covers literary works (for instance poems, magazines, novels and plays), music, films, artistic works (such as paintings, drawings, sculptures and photographs) and architectural designs. Rights related to copyright include those of producers of phonograms in their recordings, television programs and artists in their performances. • Industrial property:

normally be possible. One article, titled “Local musicians building global audiences: Social capital and the distribution of user-created content on- and off-line”, deals with this such change. Building upon existing work regarding interactive online content creation, this article examines local-level music production and distribution to demonstrate how musicians cultivate audiences through social capital that is exchanged both on- and off-line. More importantly, it examines how they do this

Blekinge Institute of Technology  An Economic Perspective: The Future of Digital versus Print Media with a focus on the cultural products of books and music This thesis identifies two of the major media industries: Books and music and investigates the future of digital media and its implications on the printed media. By Imtiaz Lakhani Supervisor: Assistant Professor Philippe Rouchy Master’s Thesis in Business Administration, MBA programme Fall 2010 MBA Thesis 2010 – Author: Imtiaz Lakhani 

Q1. Economics of obesity: Health as a luxury good There has been a great deal of public hand-wringing over the obesity epidemic in the United Kingdom and elsewhere. However, obesity does not affect all groups equally. Demographically, the poor are far more likely to be obese. The face of a poor person today is unlikely to be that of a person suffering from malnutrition or under-nutrition, but rather an obese person suffering from eating an abundance of calories derived from low-nutrient sources

transactional, and distributive aspects of networked information devices and technologies. And the crimes against these issues are termed as cyber crime Cyber law and cyber crime Cyber crime spans not only state and national boundaries, but the international boundaries as well. At the Tenth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and Treatment of Offenders, in a workshop devoted to the issues of crimes related to computer networks, cybercrime was broken into two categories and defined thus:

reason was really clear. One of the main reasons the companies were losing money, was because selling music via the Internet became more popular than buying CDs in a store. Furthermore, the profit margins of cd sails were higher than those of the online sails. The four big companies have three mayor competitive advantages. Those advantages are, recording contracts, high promotional barriers and record sales through retail stores. To make more money, the record companies needed to find other