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| ====== Specific Cases in Intellectual Property ====== | ====== Specific Cases in Intellectual Property ====== | ||
| - | * The Pirate Bay is a website that lists torrents, which allow users to find content and download it from other users. The underlying technology is not illegal, but it is often used in violation of copyright law, since people use it to download music and movies. In April 2009, the two owners of this website were convicted of ‘assisting in making copyright content available.’ They recieved a year in jail and almost a million dollar fine apiece. | + | * The Pirate Bay is a website that lists torrents, which allow users to find content and download it from other users. The underlying technology is not illegal, but it is often used in violation of copyright law, since people use it to download music and movies. In April 2009, the two owners of this website were convicted of ‘assisting in making copyright content available.’ They recieved a year in jail and almost a million dollar fine apiece.((http://torrentfreak.com/investigation-on-leaked-pirate-bay-verdict-closes-100219/)) |
| - | * In 1994, the supreme court ruled that a parody of another work did not infringe on copyright law. This issue was brought up when Acuff-Rose Music, Inc. sued the members of a rap group, 2 Live Crew, on the grounds that they had infringed on "Oh Pretty Woman," a song by Roy Orbison. This ruling was important because it created a less stringent definition of fair use. | + | * In 1994, the supreme court ruled that a parody of another work did not infringe on copyright law. This issue was brought up when Acuff-Rose Music, Inc. sued the members of a rap group, 2 Live Crew, on the grounds that they had infringed on "Oh Pretty Woman," a song by Roy Orbison. This ruling was important because it created a less stringent definition of fair use.((http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/92-1292.ZS.html)) |
| - | * In 2009, a man named Robert L. Henderson received two years in prison for sneaking a video camera into a showing of The Dark Night. This shows that the recording of this movie is considered to be intellectual theft from the owners of the movie. | + | * In 2009, a man named Robert L. Henderson received two years in prison for sneaking a video camera into a showing of The Dark Night. This shows that the recording of this movie is considered to be intellectual theft from the owners of the movie.((http://www.zeropaid.com/news/88135/missouri-man-gets-2yr-prison-term-for-dark-knight-cam/)) |
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| - | ====== References ====== | + | |
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| - | - http://torrentfreak.com/investigation-on-leaked-pirate-bay-verdict-closes-100219/ | + | |
| - | - http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/92-1292.ZS.html | + | |
| - | - http://www.zeropaid.com/news/88135/missouri-man-gets-2yr-prison-term-for-dark-knight-cam/ | + | |
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