Thursday, November 02, 2006
Media Exercise 6: Digital Piracy
Group
Julie Jones
Jacque LaCroix
Allison Coggins
Liz Knol
Digital priacy has posed significant problems for the recording industry with new technologies empowering the user to copy, distribute and exhibit music without having to pay the high costs for CDs charged by the industry's Big 5. As a result, the industry responded by issuing law suits, purchased offending companies, and introduced technological enhanced products that are designed to protect copyright and the companies' extensive profits.
While the emergence of online music providers iTunes has provided ways for people to download music and protext copyright, the ethical and moral issues continue to exist for the industry, artists and users over copyright, particular as movies and television programs have become the next frontier for digital downloads.
Your task is to examine the issues surrounding digital music and answer the following questions in preparation for your presentation:
Julie Jones
Jacque LaCroix
Allison Coggins
Liz Knol
Digital priacy has posed significant problems for the recording industry with new technologies empowering the user to copy, distribute and exhibit music without having to pay the high costs for CDs charged by the industry's Big 5. As a result, the industry responded by issuing law suits, purchased offending companies, and introduced technological enhanced products that are designed to protect copyright and the companies' extensive profits.
While the emergence of online music providers iTunes has provided ways for people to download music and protext copyright, the ethical and moral issues continue to exist for the industry, artists and users over copyright, particular as movies and television programs have become the next frontier for digital downloads.
Your task is to examine the issues surrounding digital music and answer the following questions in preparation for your presentation:
- What position does the Big 5 music media companies take in relation to copyright and digital music and how does this differ in relation to independent artists and some users?
- What ethical and moral issues exist in relation to the different positions these stakeholders have over issues of copyright?
- What implications do these issues have for the movie and television industry as video streaming becomes more of a reality over the Internet?
- What impact will "The Secure Digital Music Initiative" (see McCourt and Burkart) have on the distribution and exhibition of movies and television programming in the online environment?
The following resources will help get you started:
http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-5161871.html
http://news.com.com/RIAA+steps+up+file-trading+suits/2100-1027_3-5160262.html?tag=st.rn
http://news.com.com/Court+RIAA+lawsuit+strategy+illegal/2100-1027_3-5129687.html?tag=st.rn
http://www.halexandria.org/dward667.htm
http://www.ppionline.org/ppi_ci.cfm?knlgAreaID=140&subsecID=289&contentID=252145
Deadline: Saturday, November 11 at 5pm.
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