Why Copyright Exists In The US

Many people ask themselves if downloading music, photocopying other peoples work is good for other people. Well I say that downloading music is unethical and should not be done because you may never know what will happen if you download a music or a picture in the internet. There are many rules for downloading music in the internet, that you could be fined for or go to jail for not asking permission to download.

There are teenagers that download more than 200 songs on their MP3 players, IPod, or their cell phones. Do they know what is a copyright? A copyright is a form of legal protection automatically provided to the authors of original works of authorship(what is copyright?). People would ask why do copyright exist. Copyright law exists in the U.S because it is a constitutional right(Why does copyright laws exist?) This is why people should follow the copyright laws for downloading things.

People ignore copyright laws in order to get their favorite song for free in the internet. Why do people ignore copyright laws? They ignore copyright laws because there are many new products that makes it for you so easy to ignore the copyright laws(The future of copyright). When a author or a creator makes a song to whom do the copyright laws apply? It applies automatically in an idea that is expressed in a form of a material(When does copyright

apply?). This is how people ignore the copyright laws when they download things from the internet.
There are many rules for downloading free music from various websites that people don’t follow those rules and they just ignore it.

There is a rule under downloading music and it’s the no Electronic Theft Act Form(What is a rule for downloading music?). There are some sort of consequences that happen to those who break the rules. Some consequences are that offenders can be fined up as $150,000 per illegally copied songs or up to one year in jail( ). This is why we should be careful with downloading things on the internet and we have to follow all those rules that state in the website

page.
We always ask ourselves When do we need permission to copy music? When do i not need permission? Although the statute of the copyright and the cases of the court call for a based fact case by case analysis which they will determine whether use of third party copyrighted material which requires permission(When do i need permission?).Also even when the materials is very protected by the copyright, there are man situations where permission is not required(when do i not need permission?). We really need to pay attention to the rules if we have any permission to download a music or not.
There is something that people announce or it says on the internet about music piracy. What is a music piracy, many people ask? A music piracy is a very large scale, which it’s a unauthorized duplication of a recorded music with a intent to defraud the copyright(What is music piracy?). Do people know that there are consequences for music piracy, well there is one. This is why we should be careful with the rules for downloading music because you may never know what will happen with you.
Well I say that downloading music is unethical and should not be done because you have to be a good citizenship and be responsible for yourself. Every person that downloads a music for free without permission is not responsible because their breaking the rules for downloading a music.