Copyright, Creative Commons and Piracy.
Task One
In your own words define and describe each of these aspects.
In your own words define and describe each of these aspects.
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Copyright is a Legal right (Law in most countries) and you can break this Legal right (law) by committing a crime called Piracy.
Piracy is a crime of using something that does not belong to you for your own personal gain.To stop piracy you can use Creative Commons which is a site where you can find things you need with no copyright infringement issues.
Copyright Laws:
Further information on Copyright. Copyright means if
you find “something” on the internet that you would like to use in a newspaper
for example you would need to contact the creator of that “something (image)”
and ask if you could use it in your newspaper or alternatively you could look
on “www.creativecommons.org.nz” to
look for “something (image)” which has already allowed you to share it. If you
do not do one of these two steps and you use this “image” without permission that
would be classified as piracy which is agents the law in many countries
Creative Commons.
All
or most of the information under this heading is from “www.creativecommons.org.nz/licences/licences-explained/” I do
not own any of this information.
Here is a description of each of
the Creative Commons copyright licences. They are free for anyone to use. You
can also download a brochure which explains the New Zealand licences and read more
about the Creative Commons licensing approach on the Creative Commons internationalwebsite.
ATTRIBUTION
creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz
This licence lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and
build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the
original creation.
ATTRIBUTION-NONCOMMERCIAL
creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/nz
This licence lets others remix, tweak, and build upon
your work non-commercially with credit to you (their new works must also be
non-commercial).
ATTRIBUTION-SHAREALIKE
creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/nz
This licence lets others remix, tweak, and build upon
your work even for commercial purposes, as long as they credit you and license
their new creations under the identical terms.
ATTRIBUTION-NONCOMMERCIAL-SHAREALIKE
creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/nz
This licence lets others remix, tweak, and build upon
your work non-commercially, as long as they credit you and license their new
creations under the identical terms.
ATTRIBUTION-NO DERIVATIVES
creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/nz
This licence allows for redistribution, commercial and
non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with
credit to you.
ATTRIBUTION-NONCOMMERCIAL-NO DERIVATIVES
creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/nz/
This licence is the most restrictive of our six main
licences, only allowing others to download your works and share them with
others as long as they credit you, but they can’t change them in any way or use
them commercially.
Piracy.
The unauthorized
reproduction or use of a copyrighted Item e.g. a movie or book.
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Task Two
Next you need to discuss how each of these legal, ethical and moral considerations are related.
All three thing of Copyright, Creative commons and Piracy are related in some way for example if you are doing piracy you are breaking copyright and to not break copyright you have to be using the creative commons layout, and by using creative commons you are not committing the criminal act of piracy.
Further depth if you want to or think you can break copyright without doing the criminal act of piracy you are wrong any breach of any creative commons licence is agents the law in certain country's and can be a serious offence which may lead to jail time.
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Task Three
Next you will need to write a brief case study on the controversy surrounding the online file sharing/storage service megaupload and the new file sharing/storage service www.mega.co.nz
This case study primarily involves you discussing issues regarding copyright law and piracy to do this you may draw from following points, to start you off:
1) How copyright law has been breached which = Piracy & Unethical and immoral behavior
2) How copyright law has been worked around? Is there a grey area?
3) Megaupload was shut down. Who are the significant players in this scenario?
4) How did/do both sites work?
5) Are there other sites that operate in a similar way that have or have not been shut down?
The copyright law of Megaupload was breached as they did not encrypt their files to an extent on where it was impossible to see what that file way and if that file was breaching copyright infringement. Mega has found a way to work around the copyright infringement and piracy acts by encrypting their files so they are practically impossible to read so they do not know what that file contains and if it is breaching the copyright laws or not.When Megaupload was shut down the successor Mega was a significant player as they have gained most if not all of the Megaupload users which was proven when within the first 24 hours of Mega.co.nz being up over 1,000,000 users had registered as well as 60 completed uploads per second. both websites worked with encryption files but only one encryption file was successful as mega can not un-encrypt what they have encrypted
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Task Two
Next you need to discuss how each of these legal, ethical and moral considerations are related.
All three thing of Copyright, Creative commons and Piracy are related in some way for example if you are doing piracy you are breaking copyright and to not break copyright you have to be using the creative commons layout, and by using creative commons you are not committing the criminal act of piracy.
Further depth if you want to or think you can break copyright without doing the criminal act of piracy you are wrong any breach of any creative commons licence is agents the law in certain country's and can be a serious offence which may lead to jail time.
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Task Three
Next you will need to write a brief case study on the controversy surrounding the online file sharing/storage service megaupload and the new file sharing/storage service www.mega.co.nz
This case study primarily involves you discussing issues regarding copyright law and piracy to do this you may draw from following points, to start you off:
1) How copyright law has been breached which = Piracy & Unethical and immoral behavior
2) How copyright law has been worked around? Is there a grey area?
3) Megaupload was shut down. Who are the significant players in this scenario?
4) How did/do both sites work?
5) Are there other sites that operate in a similar way that have or have not been shut down?
The copyright law of Megaupload was breached as they did not encrypt their files to an extent on where it was impossible to see what that file way and if that file was breaching copyright infringement. Mega has found a way to work around the copyright infringement and piracy acts by encrypting their files so they are practically impossible to read so they do not know what that file contains and if it is breaching the copyright laws or not.When Megaupload was shut down the successor Mega was a significant player as they have gained most if not all of the Megaupload users which was proven when within the first 24 hours of Mega.co.nz being up over 1,000,000 users had registered as well as 60 completed uploads per second. both websites worked with encryption files but only one encryption file was successful as mega can not un-encrypt what they have encrypted
Its a start Grayson but still really just in note form, more work needs to be done of this.
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