Digital Millennium Copyright Act

gained 5.7 million stating that in in the next two years it will all even out to what was gain in the previous years. Kennedy and Westergren believe that is more than fair to compensate artists for the copyright of using their music, since 1999 Pandora paid out $3.0 million for the use of copyright recording plus an additional $0.2 million for music published. Webcasting (Exhibit 1) Major of radio listeners relied on AM/FM stations, in 1995 the first internet webcaster was established. In the years

and more. (Wipo.int) IP is also protected by the law. For example it protects the users work by putting copyrights, trademarks and patents on his or hers work. This grants the users to get recognition or money from they want they made. (Wipo.int) Copyright: A copyright is a legal term that is used to define the rights that creators have over their artistic work and designs. A copyright can be used on Art, literature, music, film, broadcasts and computer programs. Patents: A patent is an exclusive

technologies; object fetishism is satisfied through physical object being collected (,292). Spotify, along with other streaming sites have generated debate around current copyright laws. Spotify launched in 2008, is a relatively new technology that the legal world is yet to catch up with, the last update was the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, established ten years prior (guardian.com, 1).In his discussion of new

Corruption, Conscience, and Copyright: The Current State of Intellectual Property and the Future of the Music Industry “Today’s pirates operate not on the high seas but on the Internet, in illegal CD factories, distribution centers, and on the street. The pirate’s credo is still the same--why pay for it when it’s so easy to steal? The credo is as wrong as it ever was. Stealing is still illegal, unethical, and all too frequent in today’s digital age. That is why RIAA [Recording Industry Association

well as symbols, names and images used in commerce. The World Property Organization (n.d.) categorizes intellectual property into two categories, which are industrial property and copyright. Industrial property includes trademarks, patents for inventions, and industrial designs and geographical indications. Copyright includes music, films, literary and artistic works (World Intellectual Property Organization, n.d.). The World Intellectual Property Organization (n.d.) helps one understand the importance

Intellectual Property (IP) can be broadly described as using human intellect to create something new or original, and it is collectively comprised of four categories: Trade secrets, trademarks, copyrights, and patents. Intellectual property is a valuable asset that must be protected and strategically managed. To fully foster innovation, intellectual property protection is crucial. If protection is lacking, than businesses and individual would not fully benefit from their inventions and could possibly

Abstract. Different proposals have been made to restrict the “fair use” exception in a digital context. Digitization provides tools to detect private digital copying of a protected work and to limit it. This may allow title-holders to prevent practices that have been important for educational and scholarly purposes. Given the power conferred by the technology, “fair use” exceptions established by the law may become inapplicable and substantially affect access to information, particularly in developing

conception especially in infringement of a copyright” (Merriam-Webster’s collegiate dictionary online, 2017) In this digital day and age, gone are the days where the majority of people pirating media are “ripping” blank CD’s or making physical copies of movies, almost all of it is digital. Digital piracy is slightly different, and by definition is “The act of reproducing, using, or distributing information products, in digital formats and/or using digital technologies, without the authorization of

change of songs unto a digital format and online streaming against the classical CD by CD sell and distributions technique. These changes created a huge change in the music market. Are those changes in digital distributions and online streaming truly benefiting the music industry and the Artists? Or is one swindling the other?” This leads us to another issue that affects the music companies and record labels which is the copyright infractions occasioned by the new access to digital material. The illegal

In the midst of the United States’ “dot com bubble” (years 1997-2000), there was a surge in technology that brought about file sharing and digital downloads. Threatening the survival of the music industry and introducing a unique set of challenges for the industry to overcome. To remain relevant in the new global market of digital music online, the music industry would have to evolve and change with the introduction of each new facet technology had to offer. The introduction of digitally compressed