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Elkin Koren Potentially Harmful
1,999 wordsWhat copyright is may be summed up as: 3. 1 [... ] a type of property right which is founded on a person's creative skill and labour. It is designed to prevent the unauthorised use by others of a work, that is, the original form in which an idea or information has been expressed by the creator. 3. 2 Copyright is not a tangible thing. It is made up of a bundle of exclusive economic rights to do certain acts with an original work or other copyright subject-matter. FN 9 FN 9 Copyright Law in Austra...
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Criminal Penalties Software Industry
2,001 wordsIn 1996 worldwide illegal copying of domestic and international software cost $ 15. 2 billion to the software industry, with a loss of $ 5. 1 billion in the North America alone. Some sources put the total up-to-date losses, due to software crime, as high as $ 4. 7 trillion. On the next page is a regional breakdown of software piracy losses for 1994. Estimates show that over 40 percent of North American software company revenues are generated overseas, yet nearly 85 percent of the software indust...
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Founding Fathers Copyrighted Material
1,806 wordsCivilization, the thing that makes humans different from the other animals on this planet, is the ability to pass knowledge down from generation to generation with each successive generation building on the knowledge of all generations that came before. It is this human knowledgebase which has allowed us to progress to the point we are at today and it is this knowledgebase that is now under attack, an attack that threatens the very roots of civilization. In 1790 George Washington signed into law...
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U S Law Mp 3 Format
1,730 words... tive effect (the overall effect on the potential market of an author from unauthorized copying). These exceptions provide room for educational purposes, libraries, and some other non-profit uses. There is also the "first sale doctrine" which gives the original user (purchaser) the distribution rights to the copyrighted work (such as a CD). Section 109 of the U. S. Code gives the specifics of the law. Some important factors of the law are the fact that only the distribution right is given to ...
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Day To Day File Sharing
2,318 wordsResearch of Copyright involving Entertainment Law thing the legal issue to Universal Music suing of Grouper. com and Bolt. com. No of pages 4 style MLA Abstract and bibliography, No of sources: 6 3 books and 3 internet sources Deadline Nov 11 Dawn of computers and internet technology and rapid economic and communication development has compelled the society to access to modern information technology in their day to day life. Development in the communication technology especially the internet era...
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Intellectual Property Rights Peer To Peer
2,284 words... EU copyright directive forbids peer to-peer, claiming it is an infringement of the directive. But not all the European member states have put into practice the directive in national legislation. Though the member state France initially passed two amendments authorizing the exchange of copies on the internet on December, 22, 2005. Later the French government withdrew its amendments and declared it as illegal any P 2 P client evidently aimed at sharing copyrighted material. European law was co...
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Copyright Infringement Intellectual Property
2,439 wordsA copyright is the right to produce, reproduce, and transform any original work. Copyrights are only given to original works that fall under the following seven categories: Literary works, Musical works including accompanying any works, Dramatic works including accompanying music, Choreographic works, Graphical and sculptural works, Motion pictures and other audiovisual works, Sound recordings, and Architectural works 1. Under the Canadian copyright act any published or unpublished original work...
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Napster Users Digital Millennium
435 wordsThe Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is suing Napster for allegedly enabling music piracy through its proprietary Music Share program. Music Share allows music lovers to open up their stores of MP 3 files to all other Napster users. Whenever a user is online, his MP 3 s are up for grabs, with the only stipulation being that users upload a file for each one that they download. The RIAA says that many of the shared MP 3 s are illegal bootlegs, but Napster insists that it does not, ...
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Cable Operators Coaxial Cable
1,060 wordsSome cable television companies have been sending music across coaxial cable for years. But until recently, these were sent in an analog format using an FM frequency. Now companies are experimenting with sending CD-quality music in digital format across the same coaxial cable. In September 1991, International Cablecasting Technologies began selling a premium cable service, called Digital Music Express (DMX), to subscribers in 146 cable systems. DMX offered 30 channels of music programs, from cla...
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File Sharing Music Files
1,832 wordsThe Napster Dilemma By Oscar E. Casta? eda Introduction: What I call the Napster dilemma is a problem that involves new technological concepts and redefinitions of old ideas. This is the case for many legal and moral conflicts that are arising with the outcome of new possibilities and options made accessible by informatics and telecommunications. The importance of these problems has caught so much attention that in 1998, President Clinton signed the new Digital Millennium Copyright Act, where a ...
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