Isn’t Piracy in International Waters Stealing. There is more to it than just the grab-something-off-the-shelf-and-go approach. Online piracy is defined as “the unauthorized reproduction or use of a copyrighted book‚ recording‚ television program‚ patented invention‚ trademarked product‚ etc” (“Piracy”). It really started to become a problem in 1999 with the creation of Napster. Napster was the first peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing program that enabled users to download and share music for free (“Harenber”)
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Protection For Designs: Copyright Too Expensive to Afford? ------------------------------------------------- L. Linda Beatrice ------------------------------------------------- IV Year B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) NATIONAL LAW SCHOOL OF INDIA UNIVERSITY BANGALORE Contents Introduction 3 The Origin of Design and Copyright 4 Design Protection: Its Rationale and Incidents 6 Doctrine of Separability: Unity of Art and Theory of Disocciation 6 The Overlap 8 Its genesis and treatment 8 A
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Internet Piracy and the effect on the music industry By: Ahmad Mahmoud diab ID : 115766 Internet piracy is a Multifaceted problem and it was showed as the unlawful duplication of internet‚ videos and audio encompassing music and voice‚ lacking the consent from the one who hold the (copyrights (Gopal‚ Sanders‚ Bahattacharjee‚ Agrawal‚ & Wagner‚ 2004) The internet piracy effects the music and the CDs industry and makes a heavey losses in it . Many of people in the music industry
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Prerequisite of copyright: 17 USC 102(a) 1. Fixation ~ 17 USC §102(a) and Const. “writing” a. Tangible medium for more than transient time WITH authorization of CR owner; can be perceived 2. Originality ~ 17 USC 102(a) a. Low threshold‚ original work of authorship (independent creation) 3. Modicum creativity ~ (Feist) 4. Subject matter ~ 17 USC 102(a)(1) o (1) literary works‚ including software o NOT facts‚ slogans‚ fonts‚ stock characters o exempts performance by nonprofit or govt. §110(2)
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this dilemma? What are the necessary steps in order to eliminate this practice? What are the existing laws regarding this issue? Chapter 1 The Problem and its Background This chapter contains the background of the study‚ statement of the problem‚ significance of the study‚ scope and limitation and definition of terms.
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associate a grown up individual with his immature past when life was far more free flowing and easier. It is only natural that school farewell speeches are most of the times emotional and must come directly from the heart without ever depending upon the audience or the presenter as genuine expression has always been the most important asset of a great school farewell speech. But most people are not gifted with expression and school farewell quotes can really prove to be helpful regarding this purpose
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software companies can safeguard from computer piracy. There’s a big conflict between legitimate business’s and illegal distributors‚ which is creating a black-market. Essentially‚ piracy is illegal distribution and use of any product protected by copyright laws. Piracy effects society in various ways. Our paper discusses the laws and ethics‚ business losses‚ known cases‚ and the means used to commit piracy. There are many laws concerning software piracy that have been around for years but have proven
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Sons‚ Inc. (Docket No. 11-697) 568 U.S. __ (2013). The Respondent‚ John Wiley & Sons (“Wiley”)‚ brought a claim against Petitioner‚ Supap Kirtsaeng d/b/a Bluechristine99 (“Kirtsaeng”)‚ for violation of the Copyright Act‚ 17 U.S.C. Sections 101-810. Facts Kirtsaeng began as a legal case in U.S. District Court‚ New York‚ (2010) and culminated in a U.S. Supreme Court (“SCOTUS”) ruling‚ March 13‚ 2013. Both the District Court and the 2nd District Federal appellate rulings favored Wiley which caused
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Movie piracy has become one of the world’s worst crimes in history. It has cause the movie industry a severe amount of money. It has also cost people that work in the movie industry their jobs. Technology in today’s society has made it so easy to duplicate whatever comes to the theater. The criminals that chose to do such a crime can care less of the penalties that they may encounter. The loss of jobs has made it difficult for the industry to continue to create movies. Major movie companies have
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Arka Bani Maini (10020510 ) Mid term paper on IPR : Copyrights Intellectual Property Intellectual Property refers to all the intangible creations of the human mind‚ from scientific inventions to literary and artistic works; from symbols to names and images used in commerce. Earlier‚ Neo classical economics considered land‚ labour and capital as things of value. But slowly information and energy are replacing them as wealth creating assets.[1]As ‚ the world gets more and more mobile ‚ information
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