Question: Discuss For Each Of The Following Cases If It Is A Copyright
Question:
Discuss for each of the following cases if it is a copyright infringement or fair use and write the argument/reasoning/ justification for your decision.
1. You are developing a game that is based on the famous movie “Pirates of the Caribbean”.
2. Using a copyrighted photo in your report and citing its reference.
3. Installing and using Apache server for using it in your graduate project.
4. Copying a new released songs album into CDs and selling them to the public. (write two arguments for this case)
Answer:
1)copyright infringement
Explanation: It is copyright infringement because you are using someone's work to develop game.
2) Fair use
Explanation:
Using a copyrighted photo in your report and citing its reference. It is fair use as you gave credits as reference.
It could be more legal if you had taken written permission from the user.
3)Fair use
Explanation: If any software is open source then using it can be answered fair use. Apache server is an open source server. So,anyone can use it for their personal use or for the community use
4)Copyright infringement
Explanation:
- Copying someone's work and using it for personal gains is copyright infringement
- Selling someone's work by creating pirated contents can also be considered as copyright infringement
