Stop! Do you know what you're doing? Do you know who you're affecting? I bet you didn't know that your deplorable online pirating habit is affecting everyone, including you! I know Australia has delayed releases of television shows and movies compared to elsewhere in the world but that defiantly doesn’t excuse the fact that Australians are the worst global offenders of online copyright infringement.
But what's copyright? The Australian Copyright Law is a legal right given to the creators of works. For a limited time, it permits the creator of original work exclusive rights for its distribution and use. But how bad is the problem?
The Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT) report shows that movie piracy alone costs the Australian
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Hi, I'm Grace, the manager of Cineplex cinemas. I’m losing immense finance due to online piracy. It’s hindering the exclusive theatrical window, which greatly encourages customers to frequent to my cinemas. Consequently it's decreasing my cinema's customer attendance and therefore I'm losing revenue. As a result, I am obliged to needlessly fire numerous staff members. Online piracy must stop! It is destroying my business and Australian …show more content…
It allows Australian copyright holders to apply to Australian Courts and order piracy-related websites blocked by using internet service providers. However, the proposed annual estimated cost to carriage service providers is $130,825. Moreover, the Greens senator Scott Ludlam stated, "It has scope creep absolutely built into it. It's lazy and dangerous and could be exploited." Additionally, the UK has used the same amendment since 2011 with little success. Australians will find ways to bypass the blocked sites and continually download illegal content. The use of virtual private networks are just one way Australians could circumvent the blocked sites. However, the amendment may help stakeholders as it will bring awareness to the deleterious consequences of online copyright
... report also explains that illegal downloading of movies and TV have nearly halved “with 65 million film and 55 million TV shows illegally downloaded in 2012, compared to 125 million and 135 million respectively in 2008.”
Prior to the enactment of the Statute of Anne in 1710, the idea of copyright law, remained in the private law context, was in hands of profit-making stationers' company who only served to uphold their own interests in printing the materials. The Statute of Anne deeply affected the American law of copyright (Patterson, 1965) marking the beginning of copyright in a public context. Although the Statute itself had handful of loopholes like it only governed the printing of books and did not stipulate any means to identify the author, it was still often referred as the most authoritative legislation document because of its groundbreaking, historical impact on its protection to the natural and property rights of authors. In my essay, the Copyright Ordinance in Hong Kong will be illustrated to show that it succeeded the spirit of Statute of Anne, favoring the vigorous and prospering development creative work in our city. I would also suggest some ways to amend the Law in the modern circumstances where Web 2.0 Communication Tools reinvented the creative industry significantly.
Over the past decade the societal view of creative society has greatly changed due to advances in computer technology and the Internet. In 1995, aware of the beginning of this change, two authors wrote articles in Wired Magazine expressing diametrically opposed views on how this technological change would take form, and how it would affect copyright law. In the article "The Emperor's Clothes Still Fit Just Fine" Lance Rose hypothesized that the criminal nature of copyright infringement would prevent it from developing into a socially acceptable practice. Thus, he wrote, we would not need to revise copyright law to prevent copyright infringement. In another article, Entitled "Intellectual Value", Esther Dyson presented a completely different view of the copyright issue. She based many her arguments on the belief that mainstream copyright infringement would proliferate in the following years, causing a radical revision of American ideas and laws towards intellectual property. What has happened since then? Who was right? This paper analyzes the situation then and now, with the knowledge that these trends are still in a state of transformation. As new software and hardware innovations make it easier to create, copy, alter, and disseminate original digital content, this discussion will be come even more critical.
David Penberthy’s article ‘Web of piracy makes us all partners in crime’ (The Advertiser, 29 September 2013, p. 25) appears in The Advertiser, a popular tabloid News Limited newspaper published in Adelaide, SA, and distributed throughout South Australia and neighbouring towns. Its readership, according to News Limited, are 1,751,000 members of ‘families with children under 18’, baby boomers, over 65s, home owners and ‘all people 25-54’ (News Limited, 2014). Penberthy is a former political correspondent and editor for The Daily Telegraph and editor-in-chief of a News Limited opinion site, The Punch (ABC 2014). He is writing to persuade both pirates and non-pirates that piracy is wrong.
What is Constitutional law? Why can we train “Constitutional law” in regulation colleges? In that case, that definitely begs the query of why it's far the best situation to be examined at the bar examination – why working towards legal professionals want to apprehend “Constitutional law” – and invitations the in addition question, a professors-rather than-practitioners perennial, of what regulation school have to be trying to perform: Bar examination prep, regulation workout preparedness, or a few aspects else?
Extended Essay in Business Management ‘To what extent has the Australian Movie Industry cope the threat of online film piracy and how will it generate significant revenue?’ Introduction Film piracy Graham Burke, the executive director of Village Roadshow, said Australians had taken to piracy at a far greater per capita rate than "virtually anywhere else in the world — way ahead of the USA", during Australian International Movie Convention on the Gold Coast. "If we cannot solve the piracy problem there will be no Australian films — zero," he said New low cost streaming services such as Netflix has reducing the illegal movie sharing amongst Australian adults. However, an ABC News by Elaine Ford stated that statistic of 12 to 17
The DEA and global attitude toward piracy is wrong. The law which is supposed to protect us against piracy doesn’t do what it is supposed to do. It exploits the fact that the consumers are vulnerable and it trades your privacy at the expense of supposed “protection”. The global attitude towards piracy is wrong, treating harmless people like serial killers, torturing them, soaking them in silence waiting for them to crack up. The fight for online piracy and freedom of the internet continues. The laws right now are unfit for purpose and need to change, as the real crime is by governments and local authorities, the crimes against humanitarianism, against the poor pirates who mean no harm.
If there is one topic that will spark debate amongst PC gamers today, it is piracy and the impact its economic impact on the gaming industry. Nearly everyone has an opinion on the topic, ranging from complete acceptance and support for piracy to utter disgust and disapproval. In the past years, since the SOPA and PIPA legislation was proposed to Congress, this issue has reached its critical mass, with a different PC game developer blaming piracy as a present danger to the industry every other day. As someone who has played games for almost my entire life, I must confess I am rather upset when reading the innumerable discussions and articles on piracy.
The proposed internet filter is not only a flawed concept, but an expensive one. If implemented, it will do little to nothing to prevent online crime. The cost of the filter far outweighs any benefit and the potential for abuse in the future is frightening. Viruses will still exist, phishing scams will continue, illegal downloading of movies will still exist and paedophiles will still get their child porn.
Technology has vastly improved and the importance of the internet has increased out of sight which has caused many issues that weren’t present twenty years ago but are now extremely significant. One such issue is the problem of Cyber Crime which has recently reared its ugly head in Australia with the ‘Dallas Buyers Club’ case. Rates of Cyber Crime and its control have been of a strong focus of law enforcement authorities in Australia and this has been reflected in their success at preventing and reducing these types of crimes. The Australian Government needs to implement stronger penalties to Australians who regularly download illegal content from the internet. Australia is the worst pirate of many new release TV shows and movies and torrenting sites such as Pirate Bay are widely used by the Australian public.
Physical piracy-the copying and illegal sale of hard-copy CDs, videotapes, and DVDs-costs the music industry over $4 billion a year worldwide and the movie industry more than $3.5 billion. These numbers do not factor in the growing (and difficult to measure) problem of Internet piracy, in which music and movies are transferred to digital format and copies are made of the resulting computer file. Journalist Charles C. Mann explains why Internet piracy has the potential to be vastly more damaging to copyright industr...
The first reason why downloading and uploading copyrighted materials from the Internet should be legal is that downloading copyrighted materials positively affects the economy. The European Commission Joint Research Center reported that the profits of music companies would be 2% lower if uploading and downloading copyrighted materials were banned. However, music companies are able to acquire more profits despite illegal downloading because many people tend to purchase CDs or DVDs after watching or listening to copyrighted materials for free. Moreover, the research showed that people who download music illegally spent more money to buy music than people who did not download illegally. In addition, research conducted by the Swiss government informed that one-third of Swiss people downloaded copyrighted materials from the Internet because personal use of copyrighted materials is legal in Switzerland. Even though there is a fact that many people can download copyrighted materials from the Internet legally in Switzerland, the amount of money that people spend to buy copyrighted materials is not f...
Copyright is a protection for authors, composers or artists and other creators who create innovative idea base work. Copyright law is important because of its role to protect the interests of the creator, while allowing others to gain access to it legally. It designed to make sure that creators receive appropriate rights for their own ideas and creativity, and to promote artistic creativity by protecting the creator.
Copyright infringement is a major issue with media ethics. Many people confuse copyright infringement with trademark infringement (Miller, 2012). However, copyright infringement is when someone unlawfully uses a particular work that is protected by copyright law. These works can include: movies, pictures, songs, albums, artwork, pieces of literature, and newspapers. There is no reason for any of the previous to be copyright infringed, because there are ways to correctly cite all of them as sources, without illegally copyright infringing them. Most people simply do not use their resources to help them with their citing.
A copyright is a legal means that gives the creator of mythical, imaginative, musical, or other creative work the solitary right to publish and sell that work. Copyright owners have the right to manage the reproduction of their work, including the right to receive imbursement for that reproduction. An author may contribute or sell those rights to others, including publishers or recording corporations. Breach of a copyright is called copyright