Copyright and Piracy from Moral and Legal Standpoints

Name : Ahmad Ikhwan Bin Yusri Anuar IC No. : 960809-07-5487 Class : 4 STT Teacher : Pn. Salwa Hanim

Contents

What Is Copyright? What Is Piracy? The Problem With Piracy Motives In Engaging In Copyright Infringement How To Prevent Piracy Moral Issues Conclusion References

What is Copyright?

Copyright is a form of legal protection that grants people who create and produce material the exclusive rights to control certain uses of that material from being reproduced without the permission of the copyright owner.

What is Piracy?

Piracy is the unauthorized duplication of an original recording for commercial gain without the consent of the rights owner. The packaging of pirate copies is different from the original. Pirate copies are often compilations, such as the greatest hits of a specific artist, or a collection of a specific genre, such as dance tracks.

The Problem with Piracy

The problem of piracy has arisen with the rapid advance of technology. New techniques of printing, recording and fixation of broadcast or recorded programmes have emerged, making it easy for the pirates to carry on their illegal activities. Piracy is an illegal and criminal activity.

Motives In Engaging In Copyright Infrigement

Pricing unwillingness or inability to pay the price requested by the legitimate sellers Usefulness the legitimate product comes with various means (DRM, region lock, DVD region code, Blu-ray region code) of restricting legitimate use (backups, usage on devices of different vendors, offline usage) or comes with annoying non-skipable advertisements and antipiracy disclaimers, which are removed in the pirated product making it more desirable for the end-user

How To Prevent Piracy

These are some ways to prevent piracy:

Serial

keys Open Source Hardware Key Anti-Piracy Software

Moral Issues

Piracy can be used to:

Sabotage

companies or other peoples work Make profit illegally Get a competitive edge over the persons business rivals.

Conclusion

Copyright is the exclusive rights that is given to the owner to duplicate, publish and sell their materials. Copyrighting other peoples work can bring many negative effects to us. We should ask their permission if we wish to us some of their work. It would be better if we avoid comitting this kind of actions. There are many acts that are in use to overcome this problem.

References

http://www.slideshare.net/msjasmin/copyrightand-piracy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_infringem ent http://smklangkawi.edu.my/blogict/?p=26 http://www.howtodothings.com/business/howto-prevent-software-piracy http://www.slideshare.net/nani91/p-1