Media Piracy And Copyright Issues

Canada as a nation has been striving to characterize itself as more ?Canadian? for decades. This has included numerous struggles and events such as protests, bans, and the creation of the Massey Commission, to encourage national development in the arts, and support major companies like the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and National Film Board (NFB). However, this has not been an easy task for the Canadian government, as major influences from below the border (the United States) have been captivating the Canadian audiences by large. American media has had a momentous revolutionizing effect on Canada, even through efforts made to define Canada with its own cultural identity.

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

The rules and regulations of the Canadian media market are currently enforced by the CRTC, an agency whose main concern is preventing one company from monopolizing the media market. As a part of the enforcing of rules, the CRTC ensures that media companies maintain a minimum of 60% of Canadian content in their programming. The upholding of this law is integral to the continued production of Canadian content; media that regularly receives a much smaller audience than American-produced shows would certainly be pulled from air without such laws in place. This is a staple of the Canadian media environment: it has allowed the talent of many Canadians to be recognized by the world, which without the enforcement of Canadian content laws would not

The widespread problem of music piracy implies that the solution to stopping it will be

The U.S.’ negative dominance has been so damaging to Canadian culture that the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, also known as the CRTC has had to step in and implement laws under the 1991 Broadcasting Act of Canada (Branch, Legislative Services). The CRTC says, “One of our goals is to ensure that Canadian broadcasting content meets the needs and interests of Canadians by delivering compelling, high-quality Canadian-made creative content from diverse sources on a variety of platforms (“Content Made by Canadians,” 2016). The role of the CRTC is to ensure that the United States, being the mega country that it is does not overshadow Canadian talent and does not limit the opportunities that Canadians may have when

Traditional legal principles and processes are constantly challenged by the need to keep pace with copyright issues in particular piracy. The Copyright Amendment (Online Infringement) Bill 2015

There are various comparable qualities among Canadian and American copyright, for instance, the general walks in the application strategy. Regardless, every so often Canadian lawyer and clients make wrong assumptions about US copyright laws that can essentially influence a copyright case. Besides, some US lawyers and clients erroneously acknowledge more resemblance between Canadian laws and US than truly exists. The Canadian copyright law is important in today’s day in age because it helps ensure the author gets the credits necessary for their work and protects their work. This will be shown through the following points in the article below. The Canadian copyright law has a stronger copyright law because Canadian law has a protection by the federal government; the rights held by the author, the individual remains the author and fair use and fair dealing.

First, all the necessary background information will be provided. Terms such as copyright, copyright infringement, copyright takedown, and fair use will be defined. The definitions for these terms were found in Richard Stim’s book, Copyright Law. Not only will this paragraph define these terms, but it will also put them in historical context. It is important when dealing with a particular law to know its development through time and how it has reacted to changes in society, technology, and the economy. The main source of historical knowledge of copyright law comes from the book, A Short History of Copyright: The Genie of Information by Benedict Atkinson and Brian FitzGerald. After giving the reader the proper framework to understand the claim, the paper will go on to outline the different issues that plague our current system. Most of the information for this section of the paper will come from two sources: Anna Woelfel’s dissertation, “Copyright v. Creativity: The Chilling Effect of U.S. Copyright Law on Artistic Expression" and Lydia Pallas Loren’s paper, "Deterring Abuse of the Copyright Takedown Regime by Taking Misrepresentation Claims Seriously." This section’s main areas of focus will be highlighting the serious problem false takedown claims, and the impact that the United States’ faulty copyright system is having on artistic expression. The final section of the paper will propose the solutions to solve the aforementioned problems. Each suggestion that was made in the thesis will be explained one by one to show why they are the correct course of action. Anna Woelfel’s dissertation and Lydia Pallas Loren’s paper will both be cited heavily for this part of the paper as well, along with "A Call for Copyright Reform" by Emily Toronto and Stephen G. Wood. This will be followed by a critique of opposing reform suggestions made by Joel Boehm in "Copyright Reform for the Digital Era: Protecting

Online piracy is commonly referred to as a threat to businesses in the creative industries. The WTO Agreement on Trade-related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (a.k.a. “the TRIPS” agreement) defines piracy as:

As the success of services like Hulu and Netflix suggests, consumers are only too happy to pay for content that 's made available in a convenient form, and at a reasonable price. If the content industries want a genuinely effective way to reduce global piracy, they should spend less time and money lobbying for new regulations, and focus on providing innovative services that make piracy unattractive. [5]

China is largest and developed country in the world and where piracy prevails since very long and still to continue. Before it was in the form of material copying and today it exists as digital copying. Therefore, there is a strong call for a more powerful copyright protection. Piracy is a serious ethical problem in China. China is getting more concern on the piracy now than the past. Piracy is an illegal duplication and distribution and selling of copies of the materials copyrighted, without the permission by law ("Digital piracy," 2011). Today, the term is universal and is used not only in relation to books but also for music, movies, software, pharmaceuticals and inventions as well as other intellectual properties.( Adrian Johns, 2011),

The rise of the Internet era opened the whole new market for traditional media full of opportunities as well as threats. Online piracy being one of them because the music and film industry loses £5.4bn in a year and if it was reduced by 10% it could have created up to 13 thousand jobs in the UK. There are various attempts taken to fight with online piracy; a case study of Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement will be considered as well as other legislations attempting to regulate copyrights in the Internet. This

In the recent years, there has been a growing conflict between American copyright holders and website owners, both domestic and foreign, over intellectual property theft. Indeed, these copyright holders have repeatedly made attempts to block websites from committing or facilitating online piracy, while websites claim that laws that try to limit the content within websites are encouraging censorship. With the internet as an international user-controlled domain, it has been a long struggle for both sides of the conflict.

Some people have an interest in opening a new business for themselves. Nowadays, people have ways of making money easily on their own. There are several ways people do to get money, for example, cab driving, ride sharing, selling food on the street and opening stores to sell pirated movies. Everyone has their own opinion on pirated movies but the pirated movie is the illegal duplicate of films for private enterprise or individual use. The use of movies lacking approval from the author or holder of that press, or to earn such media, by law, and formulate it available through binder allocate web for different people to use. This form of exercise is called piracy, also those who act in these applications are known as pirates. Many people like to pirate movies because there has been a technological advancement and internet therefore connectivity is easy and accessible, Hollywood movies are expensive and people cannot afford, lack of law enforcement to copywriters perpetrator. The fact that, people have access to internet connectivity, cannot afford to buy movies, lack of strict law enforcement on copywriters in the desire to watch rare and new movies does not give an individual the authorities to acquire that movie; software or anything illegal means. People assume that its normal to steal content originally but do not consider the implications, the film companies, and

In recent years, internet piracy or "file sharing" of copyrighted material has gained much popularity. It has been the recent advances in our technology that has made it main stream in the eyes of the general public. “Film makers, record companies, and many other entertainment industries suffer from billions of dollars in lost profits every year… this loss comes as a direct result of internet piracy” (Cherry 1). There is rising debate on the issue of file sharing as an unethical crime. Many consider it to be no different than downright theft. But are internet pirates being looked upon like criminals? For years, American authorities have made numerous attempts to stop piracy in its tracks. However, many court cases involving software theft have shown that not all pirates are being punished equally. With piracy becoming a rising issue between American authorities, it