The Digital Millennium Copyright ACT (DMCA) is one of the best-known and most-controversial pieces of legislation passed in recent years. It has had a greater impact on the Web than virtually any other piece of legislation and is largely responsible for much of the Web we see today. One of the...
Nine years ago the RIAA won a groundbreaking suit against Napster.com in what would become the beginning of a nearly decade-long flood of litigation. The incident seemed to be a tipping point for the Entertainment Industry, as both the RIAA and MPAA up until then had enjoyed little success in...
Copyright laws apply to original works that are in a fixed medium and are attributed to a specific author or group of authors. This original work may be in the form of a written document, book, song, process, method, idea, etc. The purpose of copyrighting an original work is to control or limit...
Mass media law refers to the collective set of laws that protect or limit media or the consumers from different issues that may arise from the use or exposure to mass media. Television, Internet, newspapers, magazines, and film are just some of the few examples of mass media that are governed by...
Many people download television shows into their computers. They get the files from downloading sites, where users often share their own files and go into a global “trading” of content. The benefits of downloading television shows – at least to users – are numerous. This is free, compared to the...
The black market refers to any illegal trade of products or services. It gets its name from the fact that these transactions are made secretly, keeping law enforcement agencies “in the dark.” It is sometimes referred to as the “underground market”— or any private code that people might use to...
It is absolutely important that laws be applied within the jurisdiction that provided for it. Thus, an entire country may be subject to a constitution, but not necessarily to certain ordinances or statutes. These ordinances and statutes may only apply to the local jurisdiction in which they were...
Unfair competition refers to actions done by one party that causes harm to another party or competitor. These harm, undesirable and unfair actions may lead to criminal offenses and causes of action that would be based on the civil law. Unfair competition may refer to two different things. First...
A Music Attorney had the duty of ensuring that the agreements happening between musicians and those who pay them are legal. They are also the ones responsible to negotiate deals considering certain conditions between the artists or musicians and the record companies who are interested to hire them....
In the instance that an individual invents, creates, or thinks of a variety of intangible assets, he or she is given exclusive rights to these assets. Protection of these rights as well as the rights themselves depends on the legal definition of such intangible assets, which is called intellectual...
