The research topic chosen for this study is based on Digital Rights Management (DRM) and how it affects the stakeholders involved in digital purchases e.g. the content provider, the consumer etc. Current technologies and future trends in the areas of digital copyright security are also avenues of research that are pertinent to the topic.
Digital Rights Management is a group of technologies used by digital content providers to control their content and devices for sale. As long as DRM has existed there has been arguments for and against the systems. On the one hand it seems only fair that a content provider will get just rewards for his own work without worrying that somebody else can take it and claim credit. On the other side of the scale is it doesn't seem fair that a person who pays to own a digital product may not then be able to share their purchase with a friend, like they would a physical product. This debate is ongoing, and with DRM being a technology that is seemingly here to stay, the best alternative is to find a common ground between sufficient security for ones content ...
This paper covers two law cases on copyright infringement. The first one is Jacobus Rentmeester v. Nike, Inc., a case in which Nike was accused of infringing the copyright of a photo by creating a similar photo and logo. The focus is on how the court determines the breadth of copyright protection and the assessment of substantial similarity. The second case is Oracle America, Inc. v. Google Inc., a case in which Google was accused of infringing the copyright of Java codes. The highlights are the discussion on copyrightability and fair-use defense. The paper ends with some concluding remarks on the dilemma courts face when seeking a balance between copyright protection and freedom of creation / industrial development.
An option that copyright owners have considered toward protecting their works from circulating in P2P networks is to use a variety of technological tools to prevent piracy. Such tools would be capable of blocking, decoying and redirecting the connections of unauthorized copyrighted file transfers. However, federal and state laws such as the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of ...
In 2011, after five-years of litigation, Judge Kimba M. Wood of the United States District Court ruled in favor of Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and ordered a settlement of $105 million from LimeWire. The lawsuit was initiated by RIAA in 2006, for copyright infringement violations, against LimeWire for the illegal file sharing of music by its consumers. More than 9,000 recordings were identified by music labels that LimeWire users unlawfully distributed. RIAA sought the maximum penalty of $150,000 for each song totaling $1.4 billion in damages. Although RIAA was not awarded the full amount, they hoped it served as a deterrent for music piracy by other companies in the future.
Digital media is a major part of my daily life. Every day I check Instagram, discover photos on Reddit, and browse Tumblr. Samantha DiUbaldi’s “Copyright Laws through the Lens of the Digital Age” caught my eye because of how often I consume media on a digital platform. In this paper, I will provide a summary of DiUbaldi’s essay, and how she supports her claim that current Copyright Laws for photographs are not sufficient, and need to be changed. Following the summary will be an analysis on DiUbaldi’s construction of her argument via use of rhetorical appeals. Subsequently I will provide
This paper describes various forms of DRM (Digital Rights Management), the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act), and methods of bypassing the afore mentioned subjects. Different forms of transmission of DRM protected material also has a direct relationship with what kind of files are protected by the DMCA and will be discussed. This paper will also discuss how law makers are attempting to halt illegal music sharing and how these attempts are in vain.
Whereas Rose advocated better policing practices and improved copyright legislation, Dyson proposed that the de facto legalization of content duplication would nullify copyright law, resulting in a service-based economy with little copyright law. While this economic and legal evolution will continue for years to come, it is this author's opinion that Dyson's model of change seems much more likely based on events and trends over the past six years.
This mindset has set the stage for a new practice called digital piracy. People will post movies or music online without permission from the makers and let others watch the content for less money or even for free. This sparked a
MOSCOW, Russia (AP) - Bill Gates was arrested late Thursday evening at Moscow International Airport. Gates, co-founder of the Microsoft Corporation (MSFT), was returning to the US after attending a software conference in Moscow. Sources indicate the NKVD arrested Gates on charges pursuant to an alleged violation of Russian software law. The charges were reportedly filed by the Russian software firm Camah, presumably in response to the recent release of Microsoft Advanced eBook Processor. (This software allows users to convert Camah eBook texts into other formats.) As a foreign national, Gates was denied bail.
The Internet. It is a vast network of millions of users, surfing and sharing billions of files, all day, every day. To individuals holding copyrights on intellectual property, this is a frightening proposition. After all, there is virtually no protection for these copyright holders from the misuse of their property. But, as Scott Sullivan, writer for The FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin stated, “as history has proven, technological and societal advances usually come with a price.” The price society is paying for the Internet is a loss of copyright protection by laws for their intellectual material.
Copyright, in its first form, was first introduced in 1710 with a British statute of Anne. Since this time copyright laws have changed to remain current, and have grown into an international agreement by many countries around the globe.
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Digital piracy is a significant problem world-wide, which has been steadily increasing over recent years. A study conducted by NetNames last year found that 432 million people “explicitly sought infringing content”. A more in-depth analysis of three key regions (North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific), found that “infringing bandwidth use increased by 159.3%...327 million internet users explicitly sought infringing content [and] 13.9 billion page views were recorded on web sites focused on piracy”. Although internet piracy can be classified as a world-wide epidemic, Australia has been identified as one of the worst offenders.
Physical piracy-the copying and illegal sale of hard-copy CDs, videotapes, and DVDs-costs the music industry over $4 billion a year worldwide and the movie industry more than $3.5 billion. These numbers do not factor in the growing (and difficult to measure) problem of Internet piracy, in which music and movies are transferred to digital format and copies are made of the resulting computer file. Journalist Charles C. Mann explains why Internet piracy has the potential to be vastly more damaging to copyright industr...
Just two decades ago, saying “copyright” to teachers most likely conjured images in their minds only of the fine-print notice in the front of a textbook. Today, with a world of Web 2.0 technology at their fingertips, copyright issues for teachers can be confusing and complex. Add to that an ever-increasing emphasis on technology literacy in our states’ education standards – forcing teachers to incorporate applications and resources that may be uncharted territory to them – and the waters get even murkier. Teachers bear the double-burden of carefully abiding by copyright laws in their day-to-day incorporation of technology in the classroom, while instilling copyright ethics in students as they meet state standards for technology and media literacy. A review of the copyright literature related to education provides some clarity on copyright and fair use applied to classroom practices, suggests barriers to copyright compliance among educators, and provides suggestions on how to teach copyright ethics to a tech-savvy generation.
Moreover, hackers came up with new ways to remove the digital copyrights so the same as before one downloads music and distributes them around. The industry gets its revenue from selling this content, whether it’s online or in stores, this funds new projects and allows for better products in the future. The public should be aware of this, downloading the content for free, and not buying it will decrease revenue for the companies, stopping them from undertaking future projects. “Production companies should lower the price on their products, I can’t buy music for at least 20$ per album and DVDs for 30$, I only make 200$ per month,” said George Issa, a music fan who spends most of his nights downloading music from the internet, “when there is an album or movie that I really like, I try to buy it legally, I don’t think I am doing anything wrong, they are wrong making money off our backs,” he added.