- 1. FILE SHARING: DIFFERENTPERSPECTIVES
2.
- Equivalent to shoplifting
WHY DO THEY SAY IT'S UNETHICAL? 3.
- Does not hurt 'the little guy
- Not quite the same as shoplifting
WHY IT'S NOT UNETHICAL 4.
SIMILARITIES TO EXISTING MODELS 5.
SUCCESS STORIES 6.
- Difficult to find particular bands in many locations
- Not willing to pay $15 on a guess
DISCOVERING NEW BANDS 7. 8. BUSINESS PERSPECTIVE 9.
???QUESTION??? 10. NAPSTER 11. ITUNES 12. KAZAA 13.
- Allows users to become familiar with potential music.
FILE SHARING: OTHER CLAIMS 14.
- A study by Stan J. Leibowitz
- A sudden decline observed starting 1999, the year Napster was
born.
ECONOMISTS EXAMINE FILE-SHARING AND MUSIC SALES 15. SURVEY BY
UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND SCHOOL OF LAW 16. IPOQUE STUDY 17.
- Economic theory suggests that P2P file sharing will decrease
album sales.
- File sharing threatens artists' ability to sell their music
through digital downloading
- Digital downloading will suffer if file sharing is not
controlled.
- Making copyrighted material instantly available to the world
without the owner's permission is stealing.
- Norbert J. Michel CONCLUSION 18. ARE FILE SHARING
ACTIVITIESLEGAL OR NOT?
- File-sharing programs (Limewire, KaZaa)
- Legal file-sharing activities (Less common)
- Illegal file-sharing activities (Most common)
19. COPYRIGHT LAW
- Copyright law covers the creative or artistic expression of an
idea.
20. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
- Intellectual property is a bundle of exclusive rights over
creations of the mind such as musical, literacy, and artistic
works; inventions; and symbols, names, images, and designs used in
commerce, including copyrights, trademarks, patents, and related
rights
21. COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT
- Copyright infringement (or copyright violation) is the
unauthorized use of material that is covered by copyright law, in a
manner that violates one of the copyright owner's exclusive rights,
such as the right to reproduce or perform the copyrighted work, or
to make derivative work.
22. EXAMPLE OF TRIAL INVOLVING FILE-SHARING ACTIVITIES
- Mostly going after the people who make the files available
rather than the people who download the files
- Jammie Thomas(October 3 rd ,2007)
- Fined $222,000 for making 24 songs available on KaZaa
23. WORTH A WATCH
- http://youtube.com/watch?v=1SI8lcGiubQ