Essays on Fair Use

Question One

Propertarian approach and the democratic approach are the two comprehensive and opposing approaches to copyright. The propertarian approach sees copyright as a physical property and regardless of it being an intellectual asset, it is reflected as being elite and rivalrous. The propertarian approach is part of the blackstonain and applies the same ideologies where there are exceptionality and permanence on property privileges. This method amniotes that author has such rights like the right to dispose of, revise or retrieve any duplicate of his work as it is regarded as an assault on his property. An example of the propertarian ...

The “fair use” exceptions hit the balance between the creators and users of materials related to uncertain conditions of a copyrighted work usage. The absence of permission from an author or copyright holder encourages the user of the creative work to hide such commercial exploitation without paying the usage charge or to slander/libel an author of the work. The doctrine of the fair use emphasizes the importance of four determinants of fair use, but in fact, the numerous cases dedicated to copyright violation attest to the slippery disregard of fair conditions of usage. Legal practice is full of abuse ...

In Jack Nicas’s Wall Street Journal article, “Google Wins Java Copyright Case Against Oracle”, he explains that the software giant, Google, owned by Alphabet, Inc. prevailed in a lawsuit initiated by Oracle (Nicas). Oracle accused Google of copyright infringement because Google uses small parts of computer code called APIs in its Android Operating Systems (Nicas). The federal court ruled in favor of Google, citing “fair use” of already-copyrighted material (Nicas). This issue could have huge ramifications for the tech industry. For example, by allowing Google to utilize parts of another company’s product, this sets a precedent in ...

MEMORANDUM

Re: Sally Reporteur’s News Story on the Reform the Electoral College Movement FACTS Sally Reporteur recently graduated from a prestigious journalism school. Soon after graduation she found a position as reporter for a local news station. Based on her educational background, and the small staff at the news station, her supervisor gave her a fairly significant amount of discretion to find, investigate and write her own news stories. Like many people of her age group, Sally was quite adept at using information technologies for both her work and in her private life. One day, while she was chatting ...

Abstract

The associated issues of copyright protection and digital rights management are pressing ones these days. Particularly for the music industry, there is a growing trend among consumers to download music illegally via torrents without giving a second thought to the ethics or legally of their actions. On the other hand, many have suggested that unreasonable laws and the length of time that copyrights last explain the many copyright violations we see today. This essay will examine the nature of copyright law and its original intended purpose in English common law, as well as how the founding fathers of the ...

Empowerment through the arts

Shepard was artistic in the way he styled and stencilled Obama’s photograph in bold red, beige and blue colours. The portrait had words such as “Hope”, ‘Progress” and “Change” written at the bottom of the photograph. After Obama won the elections, the photograph was absorbed by the Smithsonian Institution in its National Portrait gallery. The stencilled photograph was a success with the Guardian reporting that it would be used in coffee mugs, T-shirts and bedroom walls of the youth in the years to come. In 2009, after the elections, the source of the photograph was revealed and it was ...

Internet Copyright Infringement

This paper is a research on Congressman Howard Coble’s Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. It limits the accountability of internet service providers (ISPs) “for copyright infringements made over their networks, unless they have knowledge of such activity or gain economically from it” (Macavinta, 1998). The writer agrees with the provisions of this law, as the writer believes that each individual should be responsible and accountable for their own actions. The writer believes that it would be unfair and unreasonable to make ISPs accountable for every single action of their subscribers. For ...