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Sports and entertainment lawyers represent football players, movie stars and musicians in all aspects of their careers. Celebrities need lawyers to wade through dense contract language, negotiate endorsements and head off legal issues before they become public. This niche in the legal profession is becoming more prominent as celebrity... more »
Breaking copyright law deliberately is considered a misdemeanor by most states in the United States. In the past several years, companies that own copyrighted material have been more aggressive than in the past about pursuing individuals who have broken copyright laws. There are several laws pending that may change copyright law.... more »
The fight between musicians, the recording industry and peer-to-peer (P2P) networks has brought music copyright laws into stark relief. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and bands like Metallica attacked P2P websites like Napster for distributing music without the permission of artists. The debate rests on the... more »
The Copyright Act of 1994 lays out the copyright laws for New Zealand. The document explains what a copyright is and what types of works receive copyright protection. The law also sets timetables for the expiration of copyrights. The Act extends copyright protection to a particular way of expressing information, but it does not cover... more »
Title 17 of the U.S. Code contains federal copyright laws. The subject matter and scope of a copyright are described in Chapter one, sections 106 to 122. A violation of the exclusive rights granted in these sections is infringement. The penalties for infringing are contained in Chapter six of Title 17. In order for a copyright to be... more »
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Protecting a work from international copyright infringement is not done by enforcing any international law. There are no international copyrights,... more »
If you request an online service provider to take down material that infringes on your copyright, most will ask you to provide proof of your... more »
Copyright infringement occurs when someone interferes with your exclusive rights to reproduce your own work, to prepare derivative works, to... more »
Entertainment law, which frequently coincides with intellectual property matters, encompasses an extensive spectrum of legal subdivisions,... more »
A copyright lawyer established the rights of creative works, such as songs, photographs, books and films, and protects them from theft and... more »
Copyright infringement (or copyright violation) is the unauthorized use of material that is covered by copyright law, in a manner that violates one of the copyright owners exclusive rights, such as the right to reproduce or perform the copyrighted work, or to make derivative works.
For electronic and audio-visual media, unauthorized reproduction and distribution is also commonly referred to as piracy (an early reference was made by Daniel Defoe in 1703 when he said of his novel True-born Englishman : "Its being Printed again and again, by Pyrates"Oxford English Dictionary). The practice of labeling the act of infringement as "piracy" actually predates copyright itself. Even prior to the 1709 enactment of the Statute of Anne, generally recognized as the first copyright law, the Stationers Company of London in 1557 received a Royal Charter giving the company a monopoly on publication and tasking it with enforcing the charter. Those who violated the charter were labeled pirates as early as 1603.T. Dekker Wonderfull Yeare 1603
The legal basis for this usage dates from the same era, and has been consistently applied until the present time.See Berne Copyright Convention, 1886: "Pirated works may be seized on importation into those countries of the Union where the original work enjoys legal protection." (Art. 12).See also Massachusetts Circuit Court Folsom v. Marsh, 1841: "If so much is taken, that the value of the original is sensibly diminished, or the labors of the original author are substantially to an injurious extent appropriated by another, that is sufficient, in point of law, to constitute a piracy pro tanto." Critics of the use of the term "piracy" to describe such practices contend that it is pejorative and unfairly equates copyright infringement with more sinister activity,, Free Software Foundation though courts often hold that under law the two terms are interchangeable.For example, see Dowling v. United States, 473 U.S. 207 (1985), read more at » http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright+infringement
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