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Defining Piracy

Piracy was once a word synonymous with the sea and rebellious sailors sailing across the ocean and plundering merchant vessels en route to their destinations. In more recent years, however, piracy is a word having to do with plagiarism. Most specifically, lawsuits against piracy is being aimed at online downloads/uploads where individuals are sharing content [...]

2008 11 08 eLawFacts copyright
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Contributory Copyright Infringment and Illegal Linking

Contributory copyright infringement is the act of linking to or transmitting information on how to access copyrighted material illegally from another source. For example posting a link to an illegitimate download of a song would be contributory copyright infringement. You might not be hosting the song on your server, and you might not have been [...]

2008 10 02 eLawFacts copyright Comments (0)