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ARRoGANT CoURiERS WiTH ESSaYS
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Grade Level: Type of Work Subject/Topic is on:
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[ ]6-8 [ ]Class Notes [Canada's Copyright Law ]
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[x]9-10 [ ]Cliff Notes [ ]
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[ ]11-12 [ ]Essay/Report [ ]
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[ ]College [ ]Misc [ ]
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Dizzed: 10/94 # of Words:853 School: ? State: ?
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ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>Chop Here>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
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Canada's copyright law is one of our hardest laws to enforce. The
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reason the police have so much trouble enforcing this law, is due to
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technology. This law is very easy to break, and once broken, it is very
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hard to track down violators. So although some form of a copyright law is
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needed, the one we have has, too many holes to be effective. There are
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three main ways in which the copyright law is broken in everyday life.
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They is audio/video tape copying, plagiarism, and software piracy.
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The first, and most commonly violated aspect of the copyright law,
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is the copying of audio tapes for oneself and friends. Thanks to the
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invention of dual cassette stereos, this has become very easy. You simply
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take an original or even another copy of a tape, as well as a blank tape.
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Stick them both in to the stereo and bingo you have a new tape. You also
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just broke the law.
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Along with copying audio tapes, now we can copy video tapes almost
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as easily. If you hook two VCR's together, they can copy from one to the
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other. You could rent a movie form the video store, copy and return it,
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with no one the wiser.
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The problem with copying video and audio tapes is that for every
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copy you make the recording artist, the actors, producers and everyone else
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who collect royalties from the tapes lose money. If the companies start to
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lose money, they raise prices. Thus a vicious circle begins. As prices go
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up, fewer people buy original copies. If less people buy the original
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cassettes prices will once again rise.
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Another major form of piracy is plagiarism. The stealing of
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someone elses ideas or work. The biggest category of people who fall into
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here are students. Very often a student when doing a research paper will
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"accidently" forget to footnote his work. By "forgetting" to give the
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author credit, the student has claimed the work as his own. Another reason
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students may copy someone else's work is to sound more sophisticated hoping
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that if they use someone elses words it will sound better than their own.
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Generally, this provides an easy way for a teacher or the police to catch
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them.
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Teachers also plagiarize rather frequently. Very often a teacher
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will photocopy several pages from a book, in order to save the students the
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expense of having to buy the book for themselves. While this is a noble
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act by the teacher, in most cases, this is illegal. Unless the author of
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the book, gave consent for his/her work to be freely distributed, teachers
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can't copy it any more than students or anyone else can.
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The third category of piracy is Software Pirating. There are
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several forms which this can take. The most common form is very similar to
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audio/video cassettes. It is when someone copies a game or program from
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his/her computer to someone elses. As long as the two people have the same
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type of computer, (they both have apples or IBM's) this is a very simple
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process, so long as the programmer didn't put a bug into the program (a
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precaution they take against people copying their work).
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Another form of Computer Piracy is a "cracker". A cracker is someone
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who has an in-depth knowledge of computers and programming. He can then
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remove the "bug" that prevents programs from being copied. After he
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removes the bug he's able to distribute the software at his own discretion.
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This is in direct conflict with the copyright law, because the program was
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not meant to be copied thus the bug. It therefore becomes illegal to
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remove the bug.
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Like audio/video cassettes copying, computer games causes people to
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lose money. In this case, instead of it being the singer, or actors, it is
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the programmer, and the software companies who lose. This leads to the
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same vicious circle. More copies make higher prices etc..
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The copyright law is hard to enforce likewise so are the penalties.
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If you are found in violation of breaking the copyright laws, you probably
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will only have to pay a fine. However, the fines can be quite substantial
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and depending where you are in the distribution chain (how many copies were
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made before yours) the fine varies, with whoever copied the original paying
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the most. In extreme cases, where a contract is enacted upon the purchase
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of the original copy like with Word Perfect, a computer word processor.
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Upon buying an original set off disks you must sign a contract promising
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not to distribute the program. In these cases, you could face imprisonment
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because now not only are you dealing with breach of the copyright law, but
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with a breach of contract as well. So the moral of the story is enjoy your
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large collection of audio/video tapes. Get those good marks on essays you
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didn't even write. Enjoy those really fun computer games, because under
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Canada's current copyright law and the amount of attention the police pay
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to this problem, it is very unlikely that you will ever get caught.
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