copyright act 1994(reprinted 1st January 2014)Copy right.copyright is the act in which protects a document, film, painting, etc. basically a product made or created, the act gives the author/creator/originator exclusive and assignable legal rights, for a secure number of years on their produced material.
what rights are given to owners, supported by these copyright laws;no ones legally allowed to copy their work, sell copies of the owners work, perform, show or play their work in public, modify their work or adapt what this work already has,
most common way this copyright act is breached is when others go ahead and modify/alter the originators material without legal permission from the originator. different ways they breach the law/act is taking the material and changing it up a bit then claiming to have produced the material from scratch taking all glory with, as well as most cases benefiting financially. copyright laws are fair in all ways, its purpose is to give the "maker" immunity to maybe continuous modification and alternations being made.The
situation is a simple principle of copyright that the expression of
an idea in an original work is lawfully secure by copyright
as quickly as it turn into documented in material form, accessible
to others.
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Creative commons:Creative commons is a authorization that copyright owners can apply to their creation/document/material to permit others to share & use. There are six licenses that one can get, they can show this, and it notifies others how the copyright holder wants their work to be used. These licenses are:CC BY-NDAttribution-NoDerivsThis license allows for reallocation, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and still a whole, as long as the maker is credited this is legal.CC BYAttribution This license lets others to allocate/hand out, remix, tweak, and reconstruct on your work, even commercially, as long as they give you credit for making the original make.CC BY-NC-SAAttribution-Non Commercial-ShareAlikeThis license lets others add upon, tweak, and work on the creators work non-commercially, as long as they license their new creations under the identical terms and give credit to its originator.CC BY-SAAttribution-ShareAlike"This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work even for commercial purposes, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms. This license is often compared to “copyleft” free and open source software licenses. All new works based on yours will carry the same license, so any derivatives will also allow commercial use. This is the license used by Wikipedia, and is recommended for materials that would benefit from incorporating content from Wikipedia and similarly licensed projects."CC BY-NCAttribution-NonCommercial"This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, and although their new works must also acknowledge you and be non-commercial, they don’t have to license their derivative works on the same terms."Source/references:
Piracy:The copyright holder is regularly the person or group who created the work, a publisher or business to whom copyright has been allocated to. Software piracy has developed such a money-making business that it has gathered the attention of organized law-breaking groups in some countries. Piracy is Copyright infringement which is the use of works or info material that is protected by copyright law deprived of authorization, infringing certain rights granted to the copyright holder, such as the permission to replicate or duplicate. Some examples of software piracy are:“Hard-disk loading” Installing and selling unauthorized copies of software on refurbished or new computers. Also “Soft lifting” which is plagiarizing and installing a copy of a software application from an acquaintance or associate. And lastly “Counterfeiting” which is reproducing and marketing copyrighted programs.
The law copyright was broken by:@Megaupload, this site hosted countless copyright files and provided ways in which anybody was able to download, copy, move & take them effortlessly, illegal and unethical as can be the site being one of the biggest illegal site has only been shut down recently. In 2012, the area names were seized, and other websites associated with it were also shut down by federals. Kim Dotcom was responsible and blamed for this incident because he was the founder of that site, he agreed that he had illegal content on his website. However, he believed that he shouldn’t have been blamed for this incident, he had no control to what was being uploaded on the servers as the site allows any user to upload any sort of media, he only permitted the servers be working and usable for full effect or this site would become as useless as a pencil with no lead. A lot of people disagreed with the federals actions as this was literally worldwide, and Kim himself took blame for it all.
These 3 laws are in some cases similar and relatively related. Piracy and Creative commons would not be in result without the copyright law. I think that copyright is out of the 3 the most significant. Creative commons and copyright are similar in the way that a copyright owner has a right in which enables them to defend/protect their own creation, material or work. In cases you want to share and market your works is when creative commons becomes involved with the 3 law process sort of cycle. Creative Commons allows others such as market audience to get involved if they wish to share the creators work to an extent that the creator benefits fairly. Piracy is copyright breach for example most commonly piracy is breached by simply downloading a game, album or a movie for personal entertainment. Even though it isn't ethical in many ways and breaches the piracy law, it is simple and people benefit from this so much they would risk doing so. These are examples how these three basic laws help each other protect material and is being breached in a wide scale using digital media.
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