Thursday, 29 November 2012

Copyright

All CDs and DVDs have copyright on them. This essentially means that you cannot copy and redistribute a licensed product if you do that would be an infringement of the copyright law and is classed as piracy. On average 95% of the downloaded music is pirated meaning that musicians only recieve 5% of what they should earn, menaing that they have to go on tours to earn back some of the money that they lose in music sales.

If you see the copyright sign it means that the product is licensed and therefore cannot be copied. It can also come in the form of R or TM meaning Registered Trade Mark.






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