Mba560 - Legal Concepts Worksheet
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Copyright
When you buy music legally, there is usually a copyright mark somewhere on the product. Stolen music generally does not bear a copyright mark or warning. Either way, the copyright law still applies. A copyrighted creative work does not have to be marked as such to be protected by law.
“The copyright allows the holder to control the reproduction, display, distribution, and performance of a protected work,” (Corley, Moorehead,, Reed, & Shedd, 2004).
Example: A person wants the new Rolling Stones CD or perhaps they are looking to make a nice music compilation for playing at a party. For many people it is as simple as opening one of many peer-to-peer file share programs, selecting the tracks, downloading and burning to a CD-ROM. What is not so simple about downloading music is the copyright protection laws that people break everyday by downloading some music tracks off the internet. In fact, a person is breaking the law by simply by downloading music files if the person or network they are downloading from does not have the copyright holder’s permission. “Copyright gives a property a certain creative work that keeps others from reproducing it without the owner’s permission. – The work be fixed in a tangible medium of expression like a book, canvas, compact disc, tape or computer disk,” (Corley, Moorehead,, Reed, & Shedd, 2004).
“Copyright is a form of protection grounded in the U.S. Constitution and granted by law for orginal works of authorship fixed in a tangible medium of expression. Copyright covers both published and unpublished works,” (U.S. Copyright Office, 2008).
Copyright Law
“Copyright law protects ‘works of authorship.’ The Copyright Act states that works of authorship include the following types of...
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