Music copyright

fixation. If the sound recordings are published before the copyright expires, the term application is seventy years before its publication or a hundred years from the date of fixation. Consequently, it also extends the copyright for musical performers works contained in the recordings (Craig, 2011, p.226). According to McCormack (2010), the Canadian Intellectual Property Office defines performers’ performances. It states that copyright applies to a performer’s performance provided that it occurs

Copyright infringement is the unmistakable reproduction of someone else’s intellectual property. To combat this issue, governments have passed many laws pertaining to the issue of online copyright and piracy, though, these laws have not stopped people from committing online internet crimes. However, those who commit copyright infringement online rarely know that they are committing a computer crime because of how easy technology has made it to reproduce someone else’s content. The consequence of

is, but they?re not exactly sure why it?s such a big deal. Some of them may even be aware of the fact that file sharing is punishable by law and carries a fine of up to and including $20,000. Since the introduction of Napster in 1999, copyrighted music has been illegally duplicated more than eight trillion times. In recent weeks, the Recording Industry Association of America has filed more than three hundred lawsuits against American

In a world where innovation, technology, and the digital age is moving at such a rapid rate, Intellectual Property (IP) becomes a hot button across business, law and ethics. In like manner, the complications with protecting and managing IP increases. The demand on IP policy has grown from the need to protect a simple invention, such as a light bulb, to the need to protect an idea, a slogan, or even a gene (i.e. biotech). To further complicate things, IP protections are no longer just in the interest

Model of Spotify. Abstract. This research looks deeper into the mechanics of how a digital music streaming, namely Spotify, works in the music industry. Spotify is a combination of both non-interactive and interactive service, and it is therefore important to understand how this combination model uses different licensing schemes for each in order to avoid any intellectual property right abuse or copyright infringement. The focus for this paper is more based on the economic model of Spotify, which

corporations possess the power of creating and distributing wealth, as opposed to the public or the state. In order to maximize profit, as is the main goal for individuals in capitalism, copyright appears to have become one of many tools used by corporations most directly involved in the culture industry. Though copyright may have been originally developed with the thought that it would increase indigenous culture production, it is not feasible for artists to create work

sharing a MP3 is that same as sharing a cassette but has followed the theory of evolution and grown from the era of physical items, like cassettes, and evolved to the electronic media market. This sharing concept brings forth another question. Why did music industry and other various media companies not try to enforce the existing laws when it was only video and audio cassettes? Could it be that “back in the day”, the number of cassettes / albums being shared were not near the numbers of electronic media

Breaking it down, the argument for removing or blocking music use in videos is that it hampers the ability of the artist to make money, since there is the ability to rip music from videos, thus providing a free source of music. This is proposed by Andy Smith is an insight column on copyrighted material. (Smith) Use. YouTube user Video Creators, on their YouTube video How To Legally Use Copyrighted Music, Games, and Movies on YouTube, in the description, directly state, that in

books, etc. Many people protect their intellectual by copyrighting their work. Copyrights are trademarks or patents, and give the owners of the work the right to claim their work and protect it from theft. Use or reference of famous work is permitted when it is for “transformative” or limited use. This work be considered “fair use” and many copyright infringement trials have been dismissed because of this. Copyrights are an important tool to ensure that copyrighted work that is referenced mentions

uploaded online. Ownership of digital content is exclusively reserved for the copyright owners who have spent many years and others decades trying to come up with an idea. Downloading of digital content online does not make that user the owner, and as such, there are no rights that have been transferred to the user except those of using the content. For instance, a user is allowed to listen and enjoy the downloaded music, watch the movies and read the books found online but it ends at that. They cannot