Copyright act

community to abide by standards on intellectual property rights. Specifically, China has strengthened its legal framework and amended its IPR laws and regulations to comply with the WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS). Copyright protection is one area that China has made great progress in especially in the entertainment industry. With China’s economy booming, China is consuming an increasing amount of TV shows. However, China’s TV industry suffers from a critical dilemma-the

INTRODUCTION Copyright holders are given a property right to their work according to section 1 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (CDPA 1988). Thus the right holders are given an exclusive right to their work. Anyone who carries out an act, which is exclusive to the right holders, without obtaining their permission prior to the act, infringes on the copyright holders proprietary rights. A lot of people have been taking advantage of the internet for the commission of copyright infringement

collage. Now it has evolved to the act of taking a portion of one sound recording and reusing it as an instrument or sound recording in a different song or piece. Today it has become an integral part of many music genres today. Samples often consist of one part of another song, such as a lyric or rhythm break, and used to create a beat for another song. The experimental musicians did not get permission from the artists whose work they were using or from the copyright owner while they were using them

profit for these industries. The RIAA claims (Recording Industry Association) “that more than 2.6 billion files of music were illegally downloaded every month on unauthorized peer-to-peer (P2P) systems" (Roda, 2003). Companies are trying to protect copyright infringement by implementing digital encryption

advances in multimedia and the Internet, China is seeing a flood of copyright infringements in optical disk piracies, internet piracy, and other forms of piracy that didn't exist before the computer and internet. I will address those technical piracies in China in this paper. Optical disk piracy is the production of optical disks that contain intellectual property that can be written and accessed from the disk. The copyright infringement of optical disk piracy is affecting the music industry

supporters for harder and more decisive copyright laws and punishments. They are also the one of the biggest companies involved with punishing those who decide to use digital piracy in order to put a stop to it and are strong supporters of copyright infringement legislation. The most recent attempt at this was through a series of bills over the past year, SOPA and PIPA. The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) (originally known as the E-PARASITE Act) and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) were a series of bills promoted

4.1.1. CINEMATOGRAPH FILMS Doing or authorising of doing of the following acts without the licence of the owner is piracy: 1.To make a copy of the film, including a photograph of any image forming part thereof; 2.To sell or give on hire or offer for sale or hire, any copy of the film, regardless of whether, such copy has been sold, or given on hire on earlier occasions; 3. To communicate the film to the public; 4. To permit for profit any place to be used for the communication of the work to the

Copyright Stance With over three billion people in the world utilizing the internet there is great danger for copyright infringement to occur (Internet Live Stats). Copyright law protects the creator of an original piece of work exclusive rights to the work. Many people who use the internet are sharing files that do not belong to them and are guilty of copyright infringement. Copyright law needs to be tightened up in the digital space to protect the creator of their unique work. In the case of

a very serious crime due to industry pressures. However, there are still supporters of file sharing like myself whom believe the act can be justified and is still ethically sound. In this essay I will explain how copyright, fair use, and public domain play a role in file sharing and also describe why it is not unreasonable for society to commit the crime of copyright infringement. File sharing is the process of making available and distributing files using the internet. Applications have been

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