Under the Digital Millennium Act, online service providers, such as universities, can avoid liability if they take certain steps specified in the Act. These include cases when the university has been informed of an infringement, shuts off access to the infringing material, and notifies the user who posted it, so that he or she can take up the matter with the copyright holder. The user must be given the right by the university to appeal the shutoff. If a university meets the above requirements, in all likelihood, it will avoid liability for any given infringement.
Stupendous University, without prior warning, checked the public folders of 200 students using the University\'s network and found that 75 students had files containing illegally copied MP3s. MP3 audio files enable users to exchange compact disc recordings digitally over the Internet, which can violate copyright rules. Only the chancellor and the head of the IT department know about the discovery. Should Stupendous University shut off access to the infringing material? Explain your answer in detail.
The number of websites and blogs grow, especially splogs, the demand for content puts more pressure on website administrators, who may resort to stealing content in order to fill space on their sites and attract traffic. Website hijacking, as such an example, is on the rise. This is the blatant use of part or all of your site’s content on another site without permission. This is also a copyright violation and needs to be dealt with accordingly.
Copyright laws were designed to protect those in society whom we celebrate and honor, often representative of the lowest paid workers, the artists. We don’t expect to take freely work from our doctors, lawyers, plumbers, electricians, mechanics, or others whose work we value and honor with compensation. We expect to pay them. And if we don’t, the collectors will come after us.
But there is something about a writer, poet, composer, and photographer that makes people expect their work needs no compensation. Just take it. Have we glamorized the “starving artist” notion so much, people think taking income producing content from them without compensation is okay? That a “link back” is credit enough for their hard work and expertise? Where did our society go wrong in that value judgment?
In our society everyone are using internet easily and accesing information from the internet from the authorized or unauthorized websites, everyone tries to get information freely from the internet,they don\'t want to pay anything, the problem is not matter to them for accessing but the workers who working for the behind data are losing their lives which the users don\'t know about, even they won\'t think about it. The government need to take a strong action against unauthorized links and websites first, they need to punish them according to the acts. Here the students who are illegally copied MP3 audio files enable exchange compact disc recordings digitally over internet to violating copyrights was a risk for the user and copyright holder, they have to send notices to the user, here is the university doesn\'t involve in this matter they don\'t have a rights to supporting their students. The university need to resist them to violating government acts.
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