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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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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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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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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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