...Intellectual Property 12/05/12 Music Piracy in the US Counterfeit, piracy, bootleg, or stealing, these are some of the many terms associated with the unauthorized dissemination and distribution of copyrighted music. For over five decades, the music industry in the United States has had to grapple with the effects of such activity. The Copyright Act of 1909 was the first granting exclusive rights to copyrighted music. The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works was created in 1886 and governs international copyrights. As technology evolved, the music industry was altered in profound ways. Globalization has created a smaller world where information and goods are shared at a pace faster than ever before. With this vast advancement in technology, the way society accesses and purchases music has created a whirlwind of problems for the music industry. New innovations have pitted a war between the new generation and the music industry; each blaming the other for the ills created. There have been many debates in the legal arena as to just what is “legal” when it comes to modern digitalized music. Where are the lines drawn? Can there be compromise, or must the music industry engage in a complete overhaul and settle for fewer profits? The answer is as varied as the very music that is at the center of debate. If one were to look back at the history of music players, we would end in 1877. It was that year that Thomas Edison first invented the Phonograph...
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...The advent of the internet has had a profound effect on countless aspects of our lives. Since the internet’s commercialization and availability to the general public in 1995, its impact and influence on our culture and commerce has been immeasurable. Nearly every industry has been affected to some extent or another by the widespread use of the internet. The entertainment industry has received seemingly endless media coverage pertaining to the industry’s adaptation, or lack of adaptation, to the new age of the internet. The entertainment industry (also informally known as show business or show biz) is a broad term for the industry of providing entertainment, which includes the sub-industries of radio, television, film, music, and theatre. This industry has gone through an enormous transformation since the internet’s inception in 1995. The internet continues to pose many challenges and opportunities to the industry. This paper will examine the impact, both positive and negative, that the internet has on the entertainment industry. Media coverage indicates that, among the entertainment industry, the film and music industries have been most affected by the World Wide Web. However, the other forms of the entertainment world have, albeit to a lesser extent, been affected as well. The least affected area of show business is theatre. The very nature of theatre is to view a performance live and in-person. There are websites, such as Arte Live Web, that do broadcast live theatre...
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...Sarsha Sekhar Sarsha Sekhar Digital piracy and its impacts Digital piracy and its impacts Sarsha Sekhar Final paper Prof. Peter Shields 02/26/2016 Global media piracy is among some of the most important concerns for our media industries today. With the internet network being so widespread, digital piracy has a huge potential to grow and create massive revenue losses for our media companies here in the United States. Considering how large scale the digital piracy industry is today, it is important for us to first understand the background and history of global piracy. The problem of piracy on copyrighted material is extreamly large and continues to grow in big numbers even today. This digital piracy causes big problems to the software, videogame, music and movie industries. Digital piracy is basically the production and purchase of counterfeit material at a discounted rate. This digital piracy is constantly flowing between our internet networks from one person to another. Digital piracy goes all the way back to the 1990’s when the computers came into the picture and when the internet was made available to the public use. Traditional media piracy was basically the copying of discs or floppy’s that were sold in retail stores all over the world. In the beginning, the media companies as well as the Chinese government did not pay much attention to digital piracy, which made it easier for these digital pirates to create these illegal copies and...
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...Creative Destruction and Copyright Protection Regulatory Responses to File-sharing Bart Cammaerts and Bingchun Meng London School of Economics and Political Science Department of Media and Communications LSE Media Policy Project: Media policy brief 1 Creative destruction and copyright protection Acknowledgements The authors would like to thank Professors Robin Mansell and Sonia Livingstone for their insightful editorial contributions on earlier drafts of this media policy brief. We are also grateful for the research and organizational assistance of our resourceful and talented interns: Dorota Kazcuba, Nate Vaagen, Ben Murray, Davide Morisi and Liam O’Neill. In addition, Jim Killock and Mark Margarattan contributed to stimulating discussion during the project’s expert meeting on ‘File-sharing, the DEA and its implementation’. The LSE Media Policy Project is funded by the Higher Education Innovation Fund 4. LSE Media Policy Project Series Editors Zoetanya Sujon and Damian Tambini Creative Commons copyright licence, Attribution-NonCommercial. This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, and although their new works must also acknowledge you and be non-commercial, they don’t have to license their derivative works on the same terms. March 2011. LSE Media Policy Project. http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/mediapolicyproject/ 1 LSE Media Policy Project: Media policy brief 1 Creative destruction and copyright protection Key Messages ...
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...Journal of Intellectual Property Rights Vol 18, September 2013, pp 457-464 Piracy in the Internet Age Nikita Hemmige† ILS Law College, Law College Rd, Pune 411 004, India Received 17 December 2012, revised 12 August 2013 The Internet has created boundary-less territories and has helped in evolving a unique method to share and transfer information, growth of e-commerce and in creating a global platform for all nations and its citizens. Online piracy is a major flipside to this development. Rampant intellectual property (IP) infringements by way of unlawful reproduction and unmonitored downloads is a matter of concern. It is significant to take note of the laws that various countries have enacted and enforced in order to curb or at least regulate online piracy and related activities. Further, though the Copyright Act, 1957 and Information Technology Act, 2000 in India deal with certain facets of piracy, they do not conclusively deal with this menace. It is the need of the hour for India to draft and enforce laws which will address the current problem and also take into consideration the technological advancements that are likely to give rise to more of such complex issues. Formulating such a law in the near future will be a welcome change and will definitely give India the IP advantage. Keywords: Online piracy, copyright infringement, jurisdictional barriers, Internet laws, intellectual property The Internet has become the first port of call for anyone in search...
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...Digital Piracy DIGITAL PIRACY In a day and age when almost all creative works can be put into digital form and legally distributed, there is also a huge potential for theft. This type of theft is known as digital piracy or intellectual property theft and often results in lost revenue, jobs, and wages. Battling online theft is a daily challenge for copyright owners. Digital piracy occurs when creative works such as graphics, photos, movies, songs, or text are distributed online without the consent of the artist, creator, or author and is in direct violation of copyright laws. (Artists Against Digital Theft) These thieves are often referred to as digital pirates. These pirates often setup professional and well-designed websites that trick consumers into believing they are legal. These websites are usually hosted overseas so that digital pirates can avoid requests to remove illegal content. It is very costly and time consuming for copyright owners to pursue international litigation to stop illegal distribution of their creative works. (Artists Against Digital Theft) In an attempt to stop digital piracy, the creative community is uniting together to “champion the rights of artists.” (Artists Against Digital Theft) A website called, Stop Stealing My Future, hosts a contest to help raise awareness about digital piracy. Artists upload videos of themselves explaining how digital piracy affects jobs and the digital arts industry. (Stop Stealing My Future) Another website...
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...CHAPTER 1 Managing in the Digital World CHAPTER OBJECTIVES After reading this chapter, you will be able to do the following: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Describe the characteristics of the digital world and the advent of the information age. Define globalization, describe how it evolved over time, and describe the key drivers of globalization. Explain what an information system is, contrasting its data, technology, people, and organizational components. Describe the dual nature of information systems in the success and failure of modern organizations. Describe how computer ethics impact the use of information systems and discuss the ethical concerns associated with information privacy and intellectual property. CHAPTER OVERVIEW This chapter helps the student understand the role of information systems as organizations move into the digital world, and how they have helped fuel globalization. The student will learn what information systems are, how they have evolved to become a vital part of modern organizations, and why this understanding is necessary to become an effective manager in the digital world. The student will also learn how globalization evolved, and what opportunities globalization presents for organizations. The importance of ethics as it relates to IS is discussed especially as it relates to information privacy, accuracy, property, and accessibility. A number of cases and illustrations are used, for example, Apple products and how they have evolved over time (such as...
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...via the internet will be of any commercial value. Intellectual Property-Music and Art and Fair Use I. Intellectual Property a. What is IP? b. How has technology affected IP? c. What laws protect IP? II. Music & Art work a. How has broadband changed the music industry? b. How is it so easy to copy and paste someone else’s work? 1. Does citing a source give one the permission to use? 2. What laws govern copyright? III. Fair Use a. What is fair use? b. How does fair use fit with copyright law? c. How does the court know if a use is fair? . IV. Moving forward a. Advancing Technology vs. Copyright laws b. Artistry vs. Commercial reward What is Intellectual Property? Intellectual Property By definition intellectual property IP, is all products derived of human intellect that the law protects from unauthorized usage. Ownership creates a limited monopoly innately of this protected property. Intellectual property consists of four categories they are Copyrights, Patents, trademarks and trade Secrets. (Cornell University Law School, N.D) Intellectual property in business such as copyrights, patents and trademarks are treated separately than that of property, as ownership implied by a piece of paper. It’s an expression of an idea and its existence is...
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...Prosperity of the Music Industry Abstract In an era where pop culture and technology are rapidly growing, intertwining and becoming embedded in the everyday lives of Americans, it was inevitable that their paths would cross. Possibly the most affected medium of pop culture is the music industry. The growth and development of the internet is either their biggest gift or biggest curse. Modern technology has made wide-scale trading of music possible in the form of MP3 files available over the internet for free. Users can simply upload the files to these sharing sites and millions of others at any given time have the ability to download it from them. The Recording Industry Association of America, however, doesn’t share the enthusiasm about these file sharing practices. To them, it is stealing from the record company and from the artist themselves. Consumers don’t tend to see it that way. The issue that arises here is whether or not should music be accessible for free trade over the internet. On the one hand, it is thought that MP3 downloads reduce sales of legitimate CDs. On the other hand, it can be argued that downloading free MP3s could actually encourage someone to buy a CD which they may not have purchased had they not heard it in its entirety. This is known as the sampling effect. The focus of this research paper will be to paper analyze the impact of music file sharing on the demand, supply, and prosperity of the music industry. The music industry is presently in a...
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...File name: WRSX_Group_Profile_Feb2010_v21 next page> © Copyright Learning Dynamics 2010. All rights reserved. GLOBAL ADVERTISING & MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS CONTENTS: (click to view page) Company History Mission Statement Company Timeline Board of Directors Corporate Governance Group Structure Operating Units Financial Performance Measures Share Price / Market Capitalisation Financials Non-financial Performance Measures © Copyright Learning Dynamics 2010. All rights reserved. WRSX 2 WRSX Global Advertising Company History / 1 Introduction: WRSX (Waldron Roux Silberstein Xao) was founded 15 years ago with the merger of three agencies: a long-established London-based advertising agency, WWMV and new partner agencies in New York (Silberstein & Lord) and Paris (Roux Toussaint Berthe). The London agency: Westcott Waldron Morrissey Vickers (WWMV) was one of the new-wave creative London agencies of the late 1970’s but as three of the original founding partners Westcott, Morrissey and Vickers cashed-out, the last remaining founding partner, Juliette Waldron, saw the opportunity to take advantage of global opportunities and grow the agency network by merging with the New York agency Silberstein & Lord and the Paris agency Roux, Toussaint, Berthe. The New York agency: Silberstein & Lord is on Madison Avenue and Lloyd Silberstein is both president and creative director. He was described in Ad Age as “one of those old-style advertising mavens who would go onto...
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...Sandra Richardson 090713457 Illegal digital downloads and piracy: What effect is this having on the entertainment industry and is there a solution to the problem? Background. The entertainment industry felt their first blow in 1999 when a student developed Napster, a software program allowing millions of users to illegally download and share music files; sparking the beginning of the hundreds of entertainment sharing websites around the world today. Although shut down due to the Recording Industry Association Of America filing a lawsuit because of copyright infringement and suppressed record sales, this did not stop the development of more sophisticated file sharing softwares able to manipulate copyright laws around the world. Downloading films became possible due to increased storage and memory space available on computers, enabling users to download multiple movies in a matter of hours, even before released in cinemas. Currently, Mass media storage devices are available that hold thousands of music and film files on a small box, transferred from the users computer. So what effect is all this having? Has the popularity of illegal downloading affected the profits and jobs of the entertainment industry? Is there a correlation between entertainment stores losing revenue or even going out of business because of suppressed sales and illegal downloads? Does this have a negative effect on the economy through job loss, reduced income tax, fewer artists growing and is there...
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...– The Private Bay The World’s Most Resilient Copyright Infringer? Kinjal Mistry California Intercontinental University Dated: 21st Feb 16 Author Note Kinjal R Mistry, California Intercontinental University Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Kinjal R Mistry, 1913 Key St, Maumee OH-43537 Contact Email – kinjalm17@gmail.com Contact Phone – 631-394-7810 Abstract The international administration of laws which can be combines with the risk of fines and imprisonment is not enough to dissuade the Pirate Bay from encouraging, boosting and helping copyright infringement. In some companies, file sharing services are provided to generate business revenue stream and sometimes these services are illegal and still used to advertise “clue chips brand”, (Andersen, B, 2010). So far there is enough potential for the business to be made, file sharing will sustain its existence in the global internet market. This papers focuses on the legal and social issues brought up by peer-to-peer sharing of files and copyrighted information on the websites. Companies argue that limitation against file sharing will pause the technology innovation. On the other side, it is certain that file sharing may break IP protections that Pirate bay knowingly exploits these protections. Research shows that the music industry has justification to shut down peer to peer file sharing...
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...America to create the “Respect Copyrights” badge. In addition to the twelve required badges, such as “First Aid” and “Citizenship in the World,” “Respect Copyrights” became a new option for one of the other nine badges a Boy Scout must earn in order to become an Eagle Scout. This badge is yet another attempt by the entertainment industry to stop illegal downloading. Over the last decade, despite numerous lawsuits and education programs, people have continued to share files by copying them and/or using P2P networks. As CD sales continue to drop and Virgin Megastores continue to close, it seems as though the collapse of the entertainment industry is unavoidable. Why have multi-billion dollar corporations been so unsuccessful at altering consumers’ decisions to download illegally? The media often places blame on the technologies themselves and the consumers (i.e. the “cheap college student”). But a closer look at the situation reveals that the fault lies in the entertainment industry’s approach to the problem. The invention of the Internet established certain social values such as freedom and communication, which led to the creation of P2P networks. Instead of working within this established culture, the entertainment industry tried to alter it to support its own financial interests. The decade-long battle between the industry and the consumer reveals that this method does not work. However, all is not lost. During the last year, the television industry realized the benefits of encouraging...
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...Introduction The Copyright Law Copyright is the exclusive right, to an intellectual property of any person, including elements of authorship, musical, literary, architectural, pictorial, choreographic, pantomimic, graphic, sculptural, and cartographic creations to print, publish or sell copies of his or her original work. Copyright is a law that protects published and unpublished work that you can see, hear and touch, from being reproduced without prior consent from the creator of the work. The copyright law was designed to strike a balance between the needs of consumers and those of creators. The issue is a control over piracy. Piracy has not disappeared, nor, by many measures, has it lessened. However, the success or failure of this act depends entirely on who you talk to. The debate is most often cast as a consumer issue, so both sides are looking for your (the consumer’s) ears. Strong arguments exist from either perspective, but both sides agree there have been unintended consequences to the provisions of the Copyright law. II. What is a Copyright? A Copyright is a form of protection provided by the laws of the United States (title 17, U.S. Code) to the authors of original works including literary works, movies, musical works, sound recordings, paintings, photographs, software, live performances, and television or sound broadcasts. This protection is available to both published and unpublished works. The Copyright Act generally gives the owner of copyright the exclusive...
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...The Chinese Music Industry’s Plight and Future At first thought, some people, including myself, would not include the music industry as part of the grand macroeconomic development blueprint. Yet music not only represents an essential part of our modern lifestyle, but also exists as a key stimulus to economic growth. Nevertheless, following the advent of the internet, rampant piracy and lack of copyright protection led the Chinese music industry into the darkest period it has ever seen. Song Ke, one of the China’s most prominent music industry gurus, has been pressured to open two Peking duck restaurants to have sustainable income. Thousands of musicians have been forced to reevaluate their lives and decide whether they would like to continue the hard labor providing free soul food for the hungry yet ungrateful people. While the Chinese music industry now faces stagnate development, unable to overcome problems such as copyright violations, lack of centralized control and coordination, through surveying and analyzing the anatomy of the problems and possible solutions, we will ultimately see why the Chinese music industry is likely to change for the better in the near future. This is important because China is undergoing the vital transition from an export-led growth model to a consumer based economy and the music industry can serve as an economic force to stimulate endogenous private consumption. Before the end of the Cultural Revolution, music in China was limited to Chinese...
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