Rebekah Roll, Collin Miles
Section 107 contains a list of the various purposes for which the reproduction of a particular work may be considered “fair,” such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Section 107 also sets out four factors to be considered in determining whether or not a particular use is fair:
the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;
the nature of the copyrighted work;
amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and
examples of activities that courts have regarded as fair use: “quotation of excerpts in a review or criticism for purposes of illustration or comment; quotation of short passages in a scholarly or technical work, for illustration or clarification of the author's observations; use in a parody of some of the content of the work parodied; summary of an address or article, with brief quotations, in a news report; reproduction by a library of a portion of a work to replace part of a damaged copy; reproduction by a teacher or student of a small part of a work to illustrate a lesson; reproduction of a work in legislative or judicial proceedings or reports; incidental and fortuitous reproduction, in a newsreel or broadcast, of a work located in the scene of an event being reported.”
Digital Millennium Copyright Act makes it illegal to produce and handout technology that makes it easy to get around copyright laaws and also makes penalties harsher for copyright infrigments on the internet.
By Josh, and Jeraco
What you can copy right: poetry, novels, movies, songs, computer software, architecture, photography, choreography, patomimes, sculptures, recipes accompanied by an explanation or direction.
How you can copy right: Download a copyright application from www.copyright.gov. Submit it, and the works to be registered. $30 dollars (per application) For songs and other audio works there must be a audio or visual recording.
Works Cited: www.copyright.gov.
Marial Fecke-Stoudt, Cathy Derringer
What is peer-to-peer file sharing? Does it violate copyright law?
A copyright may also be conveyed by operation of law and may be bequeathed by will or pass as personal property by the applicable laws of intestate succession.
Copyright is a personal property right, and it is subject to the various state laws and regulations that govern the ownership, inheritance, or transfer of personal property as well as terms of contracts or conduct of business.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain
Public domain comprises knowledge and works such as writing, art, music, and inventions, in which no person has legal rights to the body of information. Works of public domain can be used by anyone for any purpose. When a piece of work's copyright expires, it enters into public domain. If a work is not in the public domain it may be because the proprietor has a copyright or patent on that work.
Natalie Inbody and Kendra Bruns
Open Source Software is software for which the underlying programming code is available to the users so that they may read it, make changes to it, and build new versions of the software incorporating their changes
Nicholas Eugene Eby and Ashton Elisabeth Stimmel
Yes, you are violating the copyright of that software. The limitations of the personal and non-commercial usage of Microsoft Office XP Professional states that you may not "modify, copy, distribute, transmit, display, perform, reproduce, publish, license, create derivative works from, transfer, or sell any information, software, products or services obtained from the Services."
http://www.microsoft.com/info/cpyright.mspx#E6
DRM stand for Digital Rights Management (www.google.com), but some people believe it should be named Digital Restrictions Management because of the policies it has controlling any digital data/software. The reason the government has come up with DRM is to control how many times digital media is copied and to control the free use of copying. Every time a digital media is copied the less the quality then becomes. A useful tool that has been made to help with coping digital media is file sharing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_rights_management). An example would be downloading music. There was a big deal with Napster a few years back regarding people downloading music for free. Now you have to pay for any songs you want to download, unless you do it illegally with another source.
Katie Gorman
From the Wikipedia.
A root kit is a form of a virus that is very hard to detect. It is implanted once the intruder has access to a computer and allows them access without the user's knowledge. The root kit hides any sign of the intruder without even letting the administrator know the intruder is rooted in thier computer. Many times the rootkit is detected as trojan horses. The function of the rootkit is to allow the intruder to intercept administrator's data.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rootkit
Stephanie Wade
A copyright is designed to protect something that someone originally wrote. It protects someone's individual work. A trademark protects something that is unique to a product or service. For example, the Nike swish or the Pepsi symbol.
http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-general.html#patent
By: Liz Monroe and Adrianna Terrell