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Legal Concepts Worksheet
Concept Application of Concept to the Issue of Downloading Reference to Concept in Reading
Copyright
When you buy music legally, there is usually a copyright mark somewhere on the product. Stolen music generally does not bear a copyright mark or warning. Either way, the copyright law still applies. A copyrighted creative work does not have to be marked as such to be protected by law.
“The copyright allows the holder to control the reproduction, display, distribution, and performance of a protected work,” (Corley, Moorehead,, Reed, & Shedd, 2004).
Example: A person wants the new Rolling Stones CD or perhaps they are looking to make a nice music compilation for playing at a party. For many people it is as simple as opening one of many peer-to-peer file share programs, selecting the tracks, downloading and burning to a CD-ROM. What is not so simple about downloading music is the copyright protection laws that people break everyday by downloading some music tracks off the internet. In fact, a person is breaking the law by simply by downloading music files if the person or network they are downloading from does not have the copyright holder’s permission. “Copyright gives a property a certain creative work that keeps others from reproducing it without the owner’s permission. – The work be fixed in a tangible medium of expression like a book, canvas, compact disc, tape or computer disk,” (Corley, Moorehead,, Reed, & Shedd, 2004).
“Copyright is a form of protection grounded in the U.S. Constitution and granted ...