ReDigi.com is a website where you can buy pre-owned music from other users or sell your own pre-owned music straight from the users’ Cloud space. The system is set up in a way that allows users to buy and sell pre-owned digital music direct from one user to another, then it scans and deletes all [...]
Michael Jackson‘s estate filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Howard Mann in 2011 for establishing an unauthorized website that revealed unreleased Michael Jackson songs and photographs. The lawyers claimed that all the assets are owned by the Michael Jackson estate for the benefit of his children and mother. The Federal Court judge ruled that Howard Mann cannot [...]
Use Google Alerts to detect plagiarism and copyright infringement. Search your name, website URL, or common combinations of words that you use in your articles. Google Alerts emails you the latest relevant results based on your choice of query / topic. Enter the topic you wish to monitor, then click preview to see the type [...]
Copyscape is an online plagiarism checker and detects duplicate content. Copyscape is a free public service to address copyright infringement and plagiarism. Anyone can copy your website content and claim it as their own. It is up to you to find out whether someone has copied your content without permission. Copyscape provides a free online [...]
Public domains refer to work not covered by copyright anymore. Public domains as related to literary, artistic, broadcasting, and musical products are works for which the copyright may have expired or for which no intellectual property rights exist or the copyrights have been forfeited. Some famous examples of public domains are that of Shakespeare works [...]
Some of the most common questions regarding copyright infringement are briefly answered below. Is a website owner responsible for the copyright infringement on their website if a user has uploaded copyright protected work for which there has not been given permission by the rightful copyright holder? Yes, even if the website owner displays a disclaimer [...]
Copyright infringement of software is often referred to in the slang way as software piracy. Not all copyright infringement of software is piracy though as there are several means to commit such copyright infringement. Copyright piracy has become a global problem with software companies losing billions of dollars in revenue because of copyright infringement of [...]
Digital watermarking refers to the practice of embedding specific visible or invisible information into a digital signal or multimedia product such as a video, image, graphic or audio file. The idea behind digital watermarking is to deter others from changing the file, and copying or using it in an unauthorised manner. Watermarking was first used [...]
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