Interactive Ethics Assignment

Copyright means that it is yours and only yours from when you create it till 70 years after your dead, nobody may steal it and claim its theirs, All Rights Reserved.

There are three moral rights of copyright:

1) The Right of Attribution - The creator of the work has the right to be indentified.

2) The Right of Intergrity - The work cannot be altered or changed without consent from the creator of the work.

3)False Attribution - A work cannot be attributed to a creator falsely.

Creative Commons - A charitable organisation which allows copyright holders to allow anyone to use their work in ways that the author is ok with. If you go onto google and go to the google advanced image search, the bottom option says not filtered by license, if you change this to labelled for commercial reuse with modification you can do anything to the image as long as you have permission from the owner of the image.
This image below is on Flickr and is labelled for commercial reuse with modification uploaded by clevercupcakes.

In 2009, a file sharing website known as Pirate Bay were sent to jail for breaking copyright laws their defense against this court case was that they only directed users to where they actually could download the torrents not actually hosting the illegal content themselves, they lost the case and were sent to a year in jail.

Although Illegal downloading is popular and the user will get free stuff it may make the creator lose money or lose a job, there are both sides to this story, Creative Commons creates a line between them both and makes it so nobody will lose money or a job but the user will still get free stuff.

An injunction is an equitable remedy in the form of a court order that requires a party to do, or to refrain from doing, certain acts. A party that fails to comply with an injunction faces criminal or civil penalties and may have to pay damages or accept sanctions. In some cases, breaches of injunctions are considered serious criminal offenses that merit arrest and possible prison sentences.