This trial is on Walt Disney Studios vs. Faden on the work Professor faden made to inform people on copyright, fair use and infringement. They are battling over copyright and fair use on this video. Walt Disney Studios claims that Faden’s work is copyrighted and is suing for infringement. But Professor Faden claims that he followed all the rules on copyright and he thinks it is fair use. “ Defendence you make take your stands,”The judge says in an assertive voice.
Last weekend the Fine Brothers, a duo popular for their react series on YouTube such as the ever popular Kids React, fell upon a ton of controversy when they announced they plan on trademarking “react” videos on YouTube. This would mean that YouTubers who want to make similar reaction videos would have to confer it with the Fine Bros and agree to share a portion of the video’s revenue with them. However, this did not sit well with the online community, as many of videos on YouTube and comment threads of Reddit went on to bash and shame the two. Although this trademark controversy can be thought of as a form of censorship for those who would like to make reaction videos on YouTube, this debacle is a huge misunderstanding due to the lack of
Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA ) have the involved of the intervene to the Piracy in the entertainment industry, because after the failure of SOPA and PIPA. They claimed the piracy of many websites had not responsible for the domain name, the contents storage in hosting services and the search engines involved Google, those are impacts to their "lagging progress". And they were ask for help of the U.S Government, and that is encourage by "Obama administration". In this article, MPAA of Hollywood got the rights to invite and 3 biggest industries of the world which is ICANN domain name, Hosting services, and Search Engines to work together in order to get the unification of stakeholders.
The sections that are applicable are section 2 ( b), section 7, section 8 and section 9. Section 2 ( b) relates to this cartoon because it can limit our expression. We will not be able to fully express what we think or feel on the internet because the government can see every little thing we do. Even if we do express what we feel it can be used against us and in our defense we cannot use anything. Section 7 is of main relevance to my cartoon because in this section it states that we have the right to life, liberty and security.
The Courts applied the traditional four criteria to evaluate fair use defence and found that although the nature of copyrighted work was informative, however, the purpose of use was for commercial not for review or reporting news as usual. The portion of copyrighted work which has been using was a small amount. Nevertheless, the work of The Nation contain the heart of the copyrighted works which constitute substantial part of the original work and leads to the negative effect of the market for the value of the copyrighted material. As mention before, these four factors of the US copyright law are harmonized with several factors in an issue of fair dealing which have been identified by the courts in the UK.
Censorship of The First Amendment This paper will discuss how censorship denies citizens of the United States our full rights as delineated in the First Amendment. It will outline how and why the first amendment was created and included in the Constitution of the United States of America. This paper will also define censorship, discuss a select few legal cases surrounding freedom of speech and censorship as well as provide national and local examples of censorship.
their passing for white and it would work in their interests until they were discovered to be half black. The debate on skin color and being able to “pass” has been a part of history for a long time. It still to this day is something that is dealt with from others especially because of the different ethnicities being in interracial relationships and it becoming more popular.
For example, let's say that a large search engine corporation had a lot of spare money in the bank from advertising, and it decided to pay ISP's to give their traffic preferential treatment over a different website, such as a non profit like Wikipedia. That situation would not be fair in my mind, because a corporation uses its power to disproportionately gain an advantage in performance that is not justifiable. A core principle of the internet is being allowed to exercise one's freedom of speech. There should be no reason that someone who is acting within their constitutional right should be denied the opportunity to share their viewpoint in any way that they choose (2).
As right movements were progressing, the film industry wanted to remove this code for more artistic freedoms. In 1968, the Hays Code was replaced with a film rating system created by Jack Valenti that lives on as a symbol of “American freedom of expression.” Today, the core mission of the interest group is to “advance the business and art of filmmaking, protect the creative and artistic freedoms of filmmakers, and ensure the satisfaction of [our] audience worldwide.”
Copyrights Design and Patents Act 1988 What is it? The Copyrights Design and Patents Act 1988 gives creators of literacy, musical, dramatics and artistic works the right to control how their creations may be used. This also applies for source code for software.
Part IV overviews various trademark laws outside of the U.S. pertaining to protection of celebrity photographs in an attempt to contrast the reasoning used to pass such laws versus the U.S. denying the same protection. The paper concludes with a summary of the recommended expansion of trademark protection and challenges the counterarguments. I. U.S. Trademark Law A. Trademark Protection and the Lanham Act Trademarks are governed by both state and federal law. Originally, state common law provided the main source of protection for trademarks; however, in the late 1800s, the U.S. Congress enacted the first federal trademark law. Since then, federal trademark law has 3 consistently expanded, taking over much of the ground initially covered by state common law.
Piracy might affect the income of workers involved in the making of movies. Workers in the lower rungs of the entertainment industry may experience cutting overhead (Straus, 2013). They are basically people who work behind the scenes for the movies. According to Loeb (2010), those who work behind the scenes derive a substantial portion of their health, welfare, benefits, and retirement contributions from the revenue that their work generates from secondary markets which consist of foreign distribution, DVD sales, and airings on television.
Is there any need for censorship of music? Everyone loves music, who wouldn’t? Imagine a world where we are advised what to play, what to sing and even what we may listen to in the security of our homes and children. Music provides a strong form communication between all humans. Censorship of music is the practice of restriction in the lyrics or the scenes of musical works.
With the internet offering just about anything to people nowadays, it has also opened up a new crime: internet piracy. Scanlations are when people scan magna, translate them, and then upload them to the internet for anyone to read. A lot of manga does not reach localization, yet fans still want to be able to read it; therefore, they do not have a choice, but to read it illegally on websites such as MangaFox. Online readers hurt the mangaka and the publishers producing it.
Whether Lewis’ Poster infringed Disney’s rights? As a general matter, copyright infringement occurs when a copyrighted work is reproduced, distributed, publicly displayed ….without the permission of the copyright owner. To prove that Lewis violated Disney’s right; the court will use the test to determine if the infringement occurred; if the copying was “in fact” using direct or circumstantial evidence, and if there was improper appropriation, where the court will examine the substantial similarity, which is decided by the subjective opinion.
