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What are the laws about software piracy in India?
Software piracy is against the law in India under the Indian Copyright Act of 1957. It prohibits the reproduction and distribution of software without the owner's consent. The punishment is fines or imprisonment.
What is the reference to What Philippine laws are enacted to prevent software piracy?
Computer software is treated as a literary work in Philippine law, and is protected by copyright. However this does not prevent piracy, it only provides a mechanism for remuneration when piracy is discovered.
What is the UK law on piracy?
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How does software piracy affects software developers?
Software piracy is, in effect, stealing or theft. When software is pirated, the author, or copyright holder does not get paid for the work and effort that went into writing the software. The copyright holder has a right to define, within the software license agreement, the way a user my load the software, and how the software is used, and possible distributed. If those who create and write software do not get paid for their efforts, they will stop writing software. Subsequently, we as a society suffer. In the United States, it is a violation of federal law to pirate software, and it carries tremendous penalties, including fines and possible imprisonment. G.C. Hutson, Chief Executive and Senior Partner Sadien Intellectual Property, Inc. http://www.Sadien.com
What is illegally copying an application onto another computer?
Copying an application onto another computer is considered fraud. A person is breaking the law. Never do this and you will not be prosecuted for it.
Why do they hang the little boy in Pirates of the Caribbean?
He was a pirate or committed an act of piracy, which is against the law.
What effect does breaking the copyright law have on the software industry?
Software piracy can mean that a company is not able to recoup the investment it made in developing a program, meaning they won't be able to invest in the next thing (at best) or may go out of business (at worst).
Is piracy a legal act or not?
Piracy is a criminal act in all territories of the world. Software piracy, on the other hand, is not a recognised crime in all territories. To date, only 160 countries have ratified the Berne Convention which recognises copyright law internationally. Of those that have not ratified the treaty, some have their own copyright laws while the remainder do not recognise copyright infringement as being a crime.
What was the punishment for violating hammurabi's law?
The most common punishment was death
Is corporal punishment a good thing when you comment a crime?
I will assume that you meant "commit" a crime. The answer is "no". While the death penalty deters crime if enacted swiftly, there is little evidence to support coporal punishment as a whole. Pscyholgically speaking, violence begets violence. Therefore, corporal punishment for those who break the law (or for misbehaving children, for that matter) is not an effective form of punishment.
What has the author Mark S Lee written?
Mark S. Lee has written: 'Entertainment & intellectual property law' -- subject(s): Copyright, Copyright infringement, Entertainers, Intellectual property infringement, Law and legislation, Legal status, laws, Performing arts, Piracy (Copyright), Software protection
When did most piracy occur?
Soon after software itself. People have been making copies of software since the very beginning. Part of this is due to the culture of the early computer programmers - very much in to 'sharing' knowledge, etc. The forces that marketed software and charged a price for it were seen to be in opposition to the early "do it for the common good" kind of thinking of early programmers. So there are basically two kinds of software piracy - the kind that seeks to disseminate software programs without paying the authors because they think that 'intellectual' output has no value and should be shared, and those that just want to get software for free. Part of the problem is that much software is vastly overpriced for its cost of development.
