Digital Millennium Copyright Act It was in the year 1998, in the month of October that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act was passed by the U.S. Congress after much deliberations and controversy. It would be another two weeks, October 28th to be e Continue Reading...
DMCA is considered to be at its weakest point because it illegalizes free expression and leads to the detriment of various innocent victims (Wilbur, 2000). Moreover, other arguments have been raised against DCMA on the fair use of the state's intel Continue Reading...
They may not install personal copies of software they purchased for home use on a school computer; or make copies of school-owned software for either home use or to share with parents and students. In addition, the laws address the use of shareware Continue Reading...
As technology and the capability of removing artifacts from recordings improve this area of the law will be likely to be revisited in the future. This last revision to copyright law raised more questions than it answered. For instance, was it accep Continue Reading...
Digital Copyright problem of the Digital Age is that while information is easy and economical to publish and disseminate, exploitation of digital copyright and intellectual property rights remains a contentious issue. The question of who owns the rig Continue Reading...
This did not end the matter, of course, and appeared to be addressed more at the copier than at sites facilitating sharing, which would become the next target. File Sharing Services Napster was the best known but hardly the only website devoted to Continue Reading...
News commentaries online face even more difficulties in regard to laws regarding digital distribution and what constitutes fair use. Fair Use Focusing on Educational Uses The fair use exception as it applies to educational cases has raised signifi Continue Reading...
The very nature of the copyrighted material is also taken into account when determining 'fair use', and the amount of the copyrighted material being used in relation to the entire original work will also be considered. Another important aspect is t Continue Reading...
Copyright Computer Software Piracy and Copyright Infringement This work completes my portion of the Blue Team's group project where we were each assigned a set of cases to review and summarize. This report is the summary for case number 3 called, U Continue Reading...
Copyright The United States Copyright Office was established in 1897 to protect the work of designers and artists. The office administers the U.S. Copyright Act 1976 and other laws and regulations governing copyrighted work (U.S. Copyright Office). Continue Reading...
Secondary Liability, Copyright Law Digital Copyrights The content holders now face more challenges than ever before on a global basis because of the digital copyright law. Because of the advancement in the digital technologies the content industry Continue Reading...
Stop Online Piracy Act One of the biggest challenges for a variety of firms is dealing with online piracy. Recently, Congress has been debating the different provisions of the Stop Online Piracy Act. This is a proposed regulation that is increasing Continue Reading...
This education aims at stopping music piracy. Thirdly, there is the use of technology to stop piracy. This is quite difficult because the advancement in technology leads to advancement in the music piracy. However, knowledge in technology leads to Continue Reading...
Inability of Analogous Copyright Laws to Work Well in the Classroom and Society of the Digital Age Traditional copyright protection laws have for sometime now been unable to give complete protection to the rights of those who 'own' various types of Continue Reading...
SOPA Objective argument: The Stop Online Piracy Act The Internet has been called the new Wild West: there is a great deal of profit that can be made, in terms of availability of information, but there are also many hazards, due to the lack of regul Continue Reading...
Threats to Ownership and Copyright of Intellectual Property The intellectual property (IP) is defined as an original creative work, which may be tangible or intangible form legally protected by law. (Raman, 2004). The intellectual properties include Continue Reading...
Copyright Infringement & the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) of 1998 This paper looks into the issues of copyright infringement and circumvention of technology with reference to Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998. The author of thi Continue Reading...
But the resulting law was too broad, ensnaring legitimate research activities. It showed that the DMCA had become a go-to strategy for companies facing embarrassing revelations about their products." This critique centers around the idea that resear Continue Reading...
DMCA The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is a controversial United States digital rights management law enacted October 28, 1998. The intent behind the DMCA was to create an updated version of copyright laws to deal with the special challeng Continue Reading...
Business Law Scenario: Dana and Ronnie operate a Web-based business, TraderRon.com, an Internet swap site that uses a Dutch auction system pioneered by Priceline.com. TraderRon.com allows customers to make offers to other customers to swap such item Continue Reading...
Johnson reports that "in 1998, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)1 severely limited the use of copyrighted materials in distance learning. In 2002, the Technology, Education, and Copy- right Harmonization Act (TEACH Act) relaxed these restr Continue Reading...
Other uses of copyrighted music in unencrypted form lends itself to humorous uses, such as "mash-ups," where someone takes the vocal track from one song and combines it with the instrumental track of another (Johnson, 2005), in the process violatin Continue Reading...
Piracy in the Video Game Market Sales of counterfeit video games are increasing worldwide. In 2003, video game executives joined a coalition of movie, software and music companies to appeal for help from the United States government, citing that the Continue Reading...
The presiding judge disagreed with them and "commented that if reverse engineering was possible, then they should reverse engineer the alleged infringement to obtain evidence of infringement." 6. Analogies The situation assumed in the first sectio Continue Reading...
The initial MP3 founders backed by the open source model coded the MP3 software that speeded up the recognition of the MP3 audio format. (Behind the Files: History of MP3) at the time of writing the code for MP3 format, an array of compression inten Continue Reading...
Student accounts will be located behind a proxy server that is part of the university network. It is expected that the websites will be reasonably safe, but there is never a 100% guarantee. Therefore, it is highly suggested that students refrain fro Continue Reading...
Collection Development Policy Overview The Jericho Library is a small branch within the Okie County Public Library, a fictional library system in the mid-West. Its organizational structure consists of the following: The library employs a branch manag Continue Reading...
As a result, liberal international institutions broke down. Conversely, ineffective international institutions compounded national economic difficulties. (Holm & Sorensen, 1995, p. 148) Following World War II, the United States assumed a leader Continue Reading...
Internet censorship could also result in job losses since a court order may compel online search engines in America to block results or domain names. This could contribute to the instant death of some companies, particularly those with limited resou Continue Reading...
It is reasonable to conclude, therefore, that Congress has enacted sufficient regulation on business communication. Given that businesses are comprised of individuals who are subject to First Amendment protection, for the government to treat busines Continue Reading...
SECURITY Information Security and Risk Management in IT This essay is designed to present and discuss both an assessment of information security and risk management in IT systems and a comparative discussion of important academic theories related t Continue Reading...
Pandora Music Pandora Radio was launched in 2000 under the name of Savage Beast Technologies. The idea was essentially the same as it has always been: to offer users a personalized listening experience with music that was in line with their tastes an Continue Reading...
Office Supply Equipment Industry An office supply is sentimental to the existence and functionality of offices in the world. No office can operate without the services of an office supply industry. In most cases, the aspects of managing an office co Continue Reading...
There is little information with respect to adherence to copyright protections. Overall, Borders offers the most formal set of information to its customers, which seems to cause them to leave out important ethical and security information that the o Continue Reading...
Censorship in the U.S. media Increasing competition for survival and pressures for making profit led the media to resort to lower quality content which seems harmful to the society, which necessitated the authorities to censor the media. Censorship Continue Reading...
Social Engineering as it Applies to Information Systems Security The research takes into account several aspects that better create an overview of the term and the impact it has on security systems. In this sense, the first part of the analysis revi Continue Reading...
There needs to be however more efficiency put into the process of validating just what is personal vs. professional mail, with a more insightful series of policies put in place to define acceptable use of e-mail and communications systems (Breaux, A Continue Reading...
They went into a spending frenzy that would carry them though the next decade. They bought houses, started families and settled down to a life of normalcy after a decade of chaos. Illustrations began to return to resemble that of fine are of earlier Continue Reading...
What makes the cloud computing initiatives in the company so transformational is the opportunity to unify the entire customer experience in the consumer, enterprise and mid-size and small business packaging and experiences on a common platform (Ver Continue Reading...
