Copyright Conspiracy Essay

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While downloading a song may not feel that serious of a crime, the accumulative impact of millions of songs downloaded illegally and without any compensation to all the people who helped to create that song and bring it to fans is devastating. One credible study by the Institute for Policy Innovation pegs the annual harm at $12.5 billion dollars in losses to the U.S. economy as well as more than 70,000 lost jobs and $2 billion in lost wages to American workers (Stephen E. Siwek, (2007), The True Cost of Sound Recording Piracy to the U.S. Economy).
Copyright is a legal right created by the law of a country that grants the originator of the work exclusive rights to its use and distribution, usually for a limited time of 28 to 47 years (Copyright …show more content…

However the limitation of sharing ones work may restrict further development external publicity and reuse of their findings, thus also limiting financial gains.
However in order to copyright your workings you would also have to pay the price for it, as gaining copyright for specific data is nowhere close to being cost effective, thus limiting access to the general audiences who look forward to copyrighting their work, thus they are more vulnerable to plagiarism and other forms of piracy and illegal use.
In order to help people like these, a system known as content id has been developed which takes client-provided reference material and uses it to identify user uploads which match partner's content. When a match is found, YouTube applies the partner's preferred policy: to monetize, track, or block the video in question, thus protecting all types of data no matter how financially equipped the originator of the data is (Youtube.com, (n.d.). Understand YouTube rights management, Retrieved August 19, 2015, from https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/4597810?hl=en&vid=1-635755841990394361-7443781411106139432).

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