Digital Millennium Copyright Act

COPY RIGHTS “Applies Liability to Copyright Infringement with the invention of iTunes and iPod” Protection of intellectual property (IP) is devised into four parts: copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets and patents. Even though all four parts share a common goal, each follow its own special sets of rules and requirements. The part of this paper, specifically concentrated on the copyrights infringement. Although copyright infringement Acts are established and strictly enforced by the federal

United States copyright law recognizes that certain portions of software are protected by copyright law. Like other items protected by copyright law, copyright protection attaches to software as soon as it is "fixed in a tangible medium"--for instance, when written to a disk.Copyright law requires a work to be presented in a "fixed, tangible medium." When computer software first appeared, courts saw it as intangible and labeled it a "utilitarian good" that arose from the running of source code on

The digital age has brought change in many areas of modern society, and has forced us to discuss the way it has affected our modern laws. The digital age has proven difficult when handling laws associated with the internet, privacy and copyright. Additionally, the entertainment industry has seen it’s own ups and downs in this ever evolving digital era. The question to focus on is whether or not the ease of digital copying and distribution online interferes with the revenue available to record labels

to the Internet, intellectual property was a fairly straightforward issue. It was protected with copyright, trademark, and patent legislations, which granted exclusive rights to owners. Violations were not as abundant because distribution was constrained by time and space. Moreover, violators were identifiable because anonymity was difficult to achieve. In today's "global village" however, digital information such as books, music, software and art can be instantly shared between two

Criminal copyright infringement can come in many forms. Anything that has been created by one’s mind can technically be considered intellectual property. While the initial idea itself is not something that can be protected by copyright law, patents and actual plans from ideas can be. Many copyright cases are of a civil nature. This occurs when a person or organization feels their intellectual property has been used without their consent and want either compensation or for the accused party to cease

copyrighted content results in digital piracy. Common examples are downloading and uploading movies, music, e-books, software, and other copyrighted content online. Piracy deprives the original creators, scientists and artists of the deserved incentives. Digital Piracy has caused the US Copyright Industry a loss of billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of jobs. To protect the copyright owners’ exclusive rights and encourage original ideas for scientific progress, digital piracy needs to be curbed

Behind SOPA: Copyright, Censorship and Free speech At the beginning of 2012, a series of coordinated protests occurred online and offline against Stop Online Piracy Act Bill (SOPA) that expands U.S. law enforcement’s ability to combat online copyright infringement. As this protest involved many influential websites like Google and Wikipedia, it certainly draws national attention on SOPA. Whether censorship should be used online against online materials infringing property rights, as included in

Overview‐Policies  Copyright protection provides the owner of an original work of authorship the right to prevent others from using the work without the owner’s permission.  Copyright law protects against the copying of an “expression of an idea” but does not protect the idea itself.  this protection is limited compared to patent law because copyright law allows for independent creation of a copyrighted work as a defense to copyright infringement.  The theory is that 2 people can create exact

gained 5.7 million stating that in in the next two years it will all even out to what was gain in the previous years. Kennedy and Westergren believe that is more than fair to compensate artists for the copyright of using their music, since 1999 Pandora paid out $3.0 million for the use of copyright recording plus an additional $0.2 million for music published. Webcasting (Exhibit 1) Major of radio listeners relied on AM/FM stations, in 1995 the first internet webcaster was established. In the years

21 Things for Students -- Thing 7 -- Copyright Watch the introductory video here. Introduction Technology has brought about a potential crisis. It seems that a lot of artwork, literature, and music by our most creative authors, musicians, and artists have fallen into the hands of pirates. Our artists can no longer support themselves nor feel safe in creating new work. Their work is being shared all over the Internet as we speak. We need to put a stop to this. What would happen if your favorite