2. INTRO, WHAT IS DIGITAL MEDIA COPYRIGHT The Main Law source
for Copyright is the Digital Media Copyright Act of the (DMCA). The
DMCA is a federal copyright law that was a bill passed in 1998,
that was signed into law by President Bill Clinton The DMCA has
been able to fight against piracy online and internet users around
the world. Downloading or distributing copies of copyrighted
material or any other media without permission is wrong and the
DMCA is against it. The Copyright law is called reproduction is one
of the exclusive rights to the owner of the digital media source.
3. The Titles of the DMCA The DMCA are made of five titles that
implement two treaties of the law known as World Intellectual
Copyright Organizations. These laws are 1. WIPO copyright and
Performance and Phonograph Treaties act. 2. Online Copyright
Infringement Limitation Liability Act 3. Computer Maintenance
Competition Assurance Act 4. Miscellaneous Provisions 5. Vessel
Hull Design Protection Act 4. IS IT COPYRIGHTED? You have to know
whether it is copyrighted. Works are generally created by the
facts, ideas and works of the person. If you own the copyright
work, you dont have to worry about legal restrictions. When it
comes to computer programs, the laws could help A computer program
is defined as a set of statements used in the computer in order to
bring the result. If and only If you own the device. This computer
law to make copies of a program like WordStar, and could even run
on your computer. So if you own the program, you could use it,
otherwise stay away from it. The World wide web has been important
resources, most of the stuff on the web is copyrighted. The
Copyright owner has a license where his/hers pages are created.
People have these licenses to copy a web page but the have to get
permission from the people. 5. What could you do or NOT to do about
it. This act RESTICTS anyone to sell devices around copyright act
It is wrong to import, offer to public and provide without any
permission. Illegal File Sharing of Copyrighted material is well
known is wide known from the DMCA. It is illegal share copyright
work including music, movies Bookssoftware and other stuff, . even
video games, you cannot do it. 6. Basic Issues on Copyrighting and
fairness Copyright laws gives the owner of the product to 1. repair
your work, make copies, perform display the owners publicity. In
other cases, Authors rights have limitations, or fair use. It is a
law that recognizes fair use as a limitation to the authors right
of each of the technologies involved. It even covers educational
attempts, instead it goes through court to determine if its fair.
The best guidelines for fair copyrighting is Fair use guidelines of
Educational Multimedia- It helps with permission of copyrighted
material to enrolled students and everyone. 7. Libraries has
preservations options under the law of 17 USC 108 law, which is a
good thing of the DMCA, because it allows libraries to make up of
three copies of the work. The copies could be digital, as long as
they are not distributed, they should be fine. Other Copyright laws
of the libraries are like 107, which gives knowledge of fair
copyrighted uses of libraries, and digital benefits. 8. Also
Downloading whole copies is against the law. Some file sharing
applications are not illegal like edonkey, BitTorret, or LimeWire.
But people who have permission from others is illegal. Fair Use
depends on four factors Purpose of Use- which is if you have a
purpose to use it if you have permission The Nature of the work The
Amount of Work used The Effect of what was used 9. In the
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