was not only being transmitted through the United States but it was being transmitted through foreign sites as well. The purpose and goal of the Stop Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA) were to address issues that were not covered in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) which went into effect in…
n the video a Fair(y) use tale, It follows all the qualifications that goes under fair use. The definition of fair use is copyright material that in circumstances such as quotes, critisum, news reportings, teaching, and research, without needed permission or purchase from the copyright holder, you can use it. In Fair(y) use tale it is a video about Fair use, it gives examples, definitions with clips and small portions of Disney cartoons. Disney has a very strict policy and guidelines about…
In October of 2011 Texas Representative Lamar Smith introduced the Stop Online Piracy Act to the United States House of Representatives. The bill boasts heightened copyright laws that claim to protect free speech and creativity while it actually accomplishes the opposite. Online service providers, or OSPs, are the target of SOPA legislation. SOPA places liability for copyright law infringing content on innocent corporations that merely provide a platform for users to share content. Most…
I think the video, A Fair(y) Use Tale, is fair use and that Eric Faden is not infringing anything from Disney. The videos purpose was to teach others about fair use, using disney clips, and in the law of fair use it states that you can use it for criticism, parody, news reporting, and teaching. Which this video is following for education purposes. Although he is using clips from different disney movies and such, the clips are not too long to be considered copyright infringement. And he didn't…
that was conjectured to shoot to 51 percent by 2019 . According to the magnitude of the problem, this paper seeks to explore the effects of the digital millennium copyright act of 1998. The article will discuss the five titles under digital millennium copyright act and examine the impacts on managing the crimes of copyright infringement. To begin, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) law was enacted on October 28, 1998. The 42nd president of the United States William Jefferson Clinton…
“One may search the Copyright Act in vain for any sign that it is unlawful to copy a program for later home viewing.” Writes Justice John Pual Stevens in the majority opinion for Sony v. Universal City Studios. He went on to say the recording of programs for later viewing, or time-shifting, “Merely enables a viewer to see such a work which (they) had been invited to witness...” The 5-4 ruling was the beginning of a complete transformation of the video industry. A new kind of viewer slowly…
Monkey Selfies: Questioning Copyright Laws and Constitutional Applications Last week, American animal rights organization the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, more commonly known as PETA, filed a novel lawsuit in San Francisco’s Federal Court on behalf of a macaque monkey for the copyright ownership over “selfies” it took dating back to 2011. The suit requests a court order to give PETA allowance to administer proceeds from the photos to benefit the monkey and the macaque reserve to…
Once in some days, unknown as past, present, nor future, a Moonflower Ivy grew to the sky. In the dark air, winged creatures with blood red skin and some creatures that were bare, with nothing but black feathers flew about. The red beings flew in one direction and the black beings in the other. The Gods above cried with grey tears that turned the blue moon to stone. During the lunar cycle on only one night, the two races battled fiercely with great force. The red, bat-like creatures followed one…
Today, I decided to play with my own camera of the ESO Canon. I thought that I have learned manual setting on my mentor’s Leica camera. So I wanted to try with my own camera, since it came with manual settings. First, I tried set different ISO, aperture, and shutter-speed numbers. I have to be honest that it wasn’t easy, because I couldn’t tell if is too dark or too bright. I just had to do my best to guess the ISO and shutter speed. With my first try, the first picture was too dark, so I turn…
It seems as if from the moment that our parents are told our gender they begin to purchase things that “corresponded” to our gender, each the stereotypical. Though there are those few exceptions were the parents decide to purchase gender neutral items, but they eventually begin to do the same as other parents do. In our everyday lives many of the spaces that we go to are gender spaced, from the stores that we enter to our own homes. The Space Project gave me a perfect opportunity to explore some…