Digital Millennium Copyright Act

In this situation Kathy has manipulated copyright protection so she could download music online for free for herself and her friends. She let some of her friends come over and use her home computer to download music from online for free and then Kathy was charged with copyright infringement. Kathy claims ignorance as to the full scope of the law. The question in this situation is did Kathy commit a crime? According to the book on pages 96-97 “Copyright law is probably the most important form of intellectual

Privacy is viewed differently by different people, the same can be said about censorship. Censorship and privacy do not solely revolve around leaks and personal intrusions from foreign entities. The advent of social media and cell phones have created new avenues for people to communicate and share information; The internet provides people a new and global way to spread information that can be considered worthy of censorship. Many people I know argue that censorship should not be commonplace in the

Copyright Law 1."Copyright law offers copyright holders the exclusive right to reproduce, distribute, and publicly perform copyrighted work" (Carnes). The copyright holder has the authority to govern how the copyrighted material is distributed by giving specific permissions in writing. Without a specific written permission, no one has the rights to distribute or sell the copyrighted work. By selling collections that contain the whole program of the copyrighted material, Software of the Month Club

Napster had the attention of the Record Industry Association of America (RIAA), and their concerns of Copyright infringement. About a year after its launch, it was sued by the RIAA, which represented major recording companies such as Universal Music, BMG, Sony Music, and Warner Music Group. They claimed that by allowing users to swap free music recordings, Napster’s service violated Copyright laws. Eventually, the judge ruled against Napster forcing them to shut down operations and liquidate its

Napster? Copyright infringement, it claimed Napster violated “exclusive rights for reproduction and distribution of their copyright works”. 2) Based on your knowledge of how Napster worked, if you downloaded a copy of a song from a friend’s hard drive using Napster, would you be infringing on the musician’s or record company’s copyright? No, because my friend is allowing me a copy of his property. How my friend obtained that copy is another question that may raise the issue of copyright infringement

software was created, file sharing became easily usable by any Internet user. Napster, created in 1999, was the first major P2P file sharing tool and popularized file sharing for the masses (Wikipedia, par.3). After Napster was taken to trial for copyright violations, the peer-2-peer movement looked to be going out of business. Then a new wave of file sharing came along. These websites offered audio

In regards to music compositions the copyright owner have the right to the first public performance, thereafter, anyone who pays the licensing fees can perform the work. Sound recordings have special rules. The copyrights of the sound recordings have to be distinguished from the copyright on the music itself §114 (Jamar, 2013; Goldman, 2014; Grimmelmann, 2014). Performance of sound Recordings Sound recording

Reading Copyright and the Issue of Downloading When you buy music legally, there is usually a copyright mark somewhere on the product. Stolen music generally does not bear a copyright mark or warning. Either way, the copyright law still applies. A copyrighted creative work does not have to be marked as such to be protected by law. “The copyright allows the holder to control the reproduction, display, distribution, and performance of a protected work,” (Corley, Moorehead,, Reed, & Shedd

Caitlin Davis Project Proposal Assignment Dr. Fox-Horton 19 February 2017 Copyright and Public Domain within the Entertainment Industry What aspects make up intellectual property? How is it protected? According to Leslie Ellen Harris, it is important to shed light on just what copyright is. She writes, “Section 102 of the U.S. Copyright Act states the following: In no case does copyright protection for an original work of authorship extend to any idea, procedure, process, system, method

one who signed the patent.[2] Feb. 1831 the Copyright Act was the first revision to the United States copyright law. The additions to the act included the following; extended the copyright term from 14 to 28 years, added musical compositions to list of protected works, extended the statute of limitations, and changed the copyright formality requirements.[3] 1909 The copyright act of 1909 was a huge milestone for United States copyright law. This act allows for work of many kinds to be copyrighted