Current Australian copyright law is the Copyright Act 1968 as amended, particularly by the Copyright Amendment Act 2006. It is heavily influenced by British copyright law and aligns with the Berne convention. In general, it protects literary, musical, artistic, and dramatic works, as well as sound recordings, films, broadcasts, and published editions. Copyright owners (normally the creator of the work) have the exclusive rights to copy, publish, perform, and alter the work, and to "make it available" or "communicate it to the public."
Same way you'd sell anything else on the street.Newsstands are one example of a business selling "copyrighted material" (i.e. newspapers and magazines) "on the street."Note that if you're copying copyrighted material and selling it on the street, you're breaking the law.
Limewire itself isn't illegal but if you download copyrighted material with it that is against the law.
You can use others' protected material if you have an exemption in the law or a license from the copyright holder.
Use of protected material without permission or an exemption in the law is called infringement.
Yes, it is unlawful to download copyrighted material without permission.
To determine if material posted online is copyrighted, look for a copyright symbol (), the word "copyright," or the phrase "all rights reserved." Additionally, check for any statements or disclaimers indicating the material is protected by copyright law. You can also search for the material in copyright databases or contact the creator for permission to use it.
If you download this answer, it is not copyrighted. If you send a letter to a newspaper, it is not copyrighted. You knew their rules and intended it for their publication. If you copied a page out of a copyrighted book and sent it to someone else, you sent copyrighted material. If you draw a picture and do not sign it, you give the person receiving it permission to copy it. If you sign it, it becomes copyrighted. The law is complicated.Downloading a work protected by copyright is copyright infringement unless you have a license.____________________________________________________________________Yes. The law is complicated. That is why copyright lawyers make good money!
Infringement is the use, without permission, of copyrighted material that does not fall under a "fair use" or other exception to copyright law,
Copying, altering, distributing, or performing/displaying a work without an exemption in the law or permission from the rightsholder is unauthorized.
If it is copyrighted, then yes. Created by someone that has not copyrighted their material, then no.
Yes; notification is not required for protection.
Yes; notification is not required for protection.