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Legal concepts
Legal Concepts Worksheet
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Piracy
The downloading of illegal music and movie’s is considered piracy.
I have personally experienced this from using share-ware such as Kazaa and other controversial sharing software. I once downloaded a movie and my internet provider cut my internet access because of a copyright violation. I was warned that any further downloading would have my internet shut-down permanently and possible legal action. What I had done was commit an act of piracy by downloading the movie from a free site.
The World Trade Organization (WTO) requires countries to upgrade their intellectual property laws to protect patents and copyrights and to guard against the piracy of items such as computer software and videotapes.
Piracy, rampant on college campuses, continues to hurt retailers, musicians, producers, record labels and thousands of less-celebrated individuals involved in making music (Lemke, 2004). “The WTO requires countries to upgrade their intellectual property laws to protect patents and copyrights and to guard against the piracy of items such as computer software and videotapes”
(Reed, 2005, ch.18).
Copyright Law
Copyrights and property are very much the same. In today’s technologies’ piracy over the internet has become the largest area for copyright infringement. This problem is global especially in more advanced countries such as the U.S. and U.K.
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