Piracy and Copyright

PIRACY AND COPYRIGHT INFO:

What is it?
Piracy is the stealing of others rights such as a book, story, invention or idea. In music, piracy is when you copy a CD or music for your own personal use. To make copies of discs to sell for profit is piracy. Copyright is a type of property that is founded on a person's creative skill and labour.

What do we use it for?
People make pirate copies of other peoples things to sell to other people and gain money of their own to make a profit. Copyright is there to protect the works and labour of a person and prevent unauthorized use of the work that is created by the original person.

How is it a part of our multimedia world?
Piracy and Copyright is a part of our multimedia world because they are both related to media. In the case of Piracy, the person who creates the pirated copy is using media to produce the extra copies. In Copyright, you need it to protect different types of multimedia such as film or music.

Are there different types? What are the advantages/disadvantages of each type?
There are no different types of Piracy or Copyright.

Future directions, what is waiting around the corner, what is the next "new" technology in this area?
Piracy and Copyright have no "new technology" waiting to come out but the avoidance of getting caught for Piracy is reducing and it is becoming harder to produce copies of something that is not theirs.

WEBSITES:
http://sky.prohosting.com/dontborg/piracy.htm (2nd Sept)
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080924031529AAgKqWT (2nd Sept)
http://www.ag.gov.au/www/agd/agd.nsf/Page/Copyright_Whatiscopyright (2nd Sept)