What is infringement?

Nothing about it is "legal." Copyright infringement is illegal.

The police brutality was an infringement on the people's rights.

If someone is no stranger to allegations of copyright infringement, it means he gets accused of copyright infringement a lot. ...

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Infringement is handled in civil court.

The Theories concern with infringement of employees right

Innocent infringement is a violation of copyright without willful intent. Accidentally moving an mp3 onto a shared drive would be innocent infringement. ...

Using a logo without permission would be trademark infringement.

In the United States, most punishment for copyright infringement is in the form of fees. Statutory damages can range from $750 to $30,000 per infringement. ...

In the US, infringement carries a statutory fine of $750 to $30,000 per infringement. ...

It's virtually impossible to say who created infringement; it has existed for 300 years. ...

Not really; infringement cases can be brought before any civil court.

IP crimes include copyright infringement, trademark infringement, and patent fraud. ...

Infringement limits authors' ability to make money from their works. Part of copyright is the ability to use scarcity to create or sustain demand, but infringement eliminates scarcity. ...

Infringement limits authors' ability to make money from their works, or to control their reuse. ...

Copyright infringement is primarily a civil offense however there are options to prosecute criminally in the case of "willful and deliberate" acts of infringement. Ignorance of the existence of copyright is not a viable defense to infringement. If an author is convicted of copyright infringement the publisher can be held liable for contributory infringement if it can be shown that they had knowledge of the infringement prior to publication. If, by a preponderance of the evidence, infringement can be shown then yes a...

Posting a photo from Flickr on your own website without permission would be an example of copyright infringement. ...

Yes. Copyright infringement of any form is a violation of federal law.

Scanning copies of his comic book collection and posting them to a website made him guilty of copyright infringement. ...

In the US the statute of limitations for filing a lawsuit for copyright infringement is 3 years after the violation is discovered. ...

Fines range from $750 to $30,000 per infringement, and a prison sentence is available in extreme cases. ...

Generally, owners will settle for actual damages unless the infringement has been extremely damaging. ...

Because "fair use" must be proven as a defense to copyright infringement, if it cannot be proven, and there is no other defense, then failure to qualify as fair use will result in the same damages as any other infringement. ...

Under current US law fines for non criminal infringement can range as high as $150,000.00 USD per infringement. However if the standard for felony criminal copyright infringement is met the fine can reach $250,000.00 per infringement. Additionally in the case of repeat offenses all fines can be doubled. ...

"Theft" isn't really the word to apply here, because it's not exactly thievery; usually we use "violation" or "infringement" when talking about intellectual property, because we're violating the owner's rights. Uploading a song to YouTube without a license would be an example of copyright infringement. A knockoff Coach bag would be an example of trademark infringement. Counterfeit drugs would be an example of patent infringement (and trademark infringement). ...