Ever visited a torrent site or watched an unofficial YouTube video of copyrighted material?
LimeWire admonishes the kids using it not to do anything bad, like copying a copyrighted file.
That paves the way for the transfer of copyrighted materials, including movies, software and music.
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Creators of copyrighted works deserve to be protected both by law and through appropriate enforcement.
The safest course is always to get permission from the copyright owner before using copyrighted material.
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Roughly ten per cent of books are copyrighted and in print that is, actively being sold by publishers.
But some libertarians seem to find the same line of argument persuasive when applied to copyrighted works.
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Film studios are starting to target mobile applications that use copyrighted images and film clips without permission.
Napster and similar services have succeeded simply because they are offering someone else's copyrighted music for free.
Historically, the first sale doctrine has provided strong rights to owners of legitimately purchased copyrighted works.
But the bulk of the digital music on the Net is copyrighted by a major recording studio.
For example, YouTube forbids a user from posting copyrighted materials if the user does not own the copyright.
It is difficult for any web administrator to know which links to copyrighted material are done with permission.
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This causes U.S. importers of copyrighted material to rely on Chinese middlemen, increasing import costs and encouraging piracy.
With a few tweaks, e-speak could shamelessly steal copyrighted material, the way upstart Napster now does with music.
Under the new program, the industry will monitor "peer-to-peer" software services for evidence of copyrighted files being shared.
That's made the technology a hit with illegal downloaders, who pirate copyrighted files and share them in online communities.
The key legal question is whether the courts will allow Google to continue to scan copyrighted material without permission.
The company contends that the architecture of the Napster model makes identifying copyrighted and not copyrighted material extremely difficult.
In a subsequent telephone conversation Joel told me he had copyrighted his pitch.
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But the BitTorrent protocol has made it a hotbed for the sharing of copyrighted content like movies and music.
Publishers get understandably incensed by websites that rip off their copyrighted content wholesale and treat it as their own.
They could be read online in their entirety before this, while only 10% of a copyrighted book was accessible.
Various embattled film and music companies, whose copyrighted wares the Pirate Bay helped to distribute, saw the process differently.
Idaho Falls, Idaho (CNN) -- Forget, for the moment, about computer whiz kids who download copyrighted music for free.
Acknowledging the source of the copyrighted material does not substitute for obtaining permission.
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As in, you could be liable for embedding a YouTube video on your site with ill-gotten copyrighted footage in it.
On a larger scale, that could mean Google gets in trouble for pointing the way to illegally shared copyrighted content.
The decision is a major victory for American consumers because it allows them to shop worldwide for their copyrighted content.
"People start to use copyrighted materials, and people started to pay more and more respect to intellectual property, " he said.
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