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=An Investigation into Copyright Law=

Copyrighting is a low class act by someone who cannot come up with something an intelligent and has to copy someone else’s original ideas.
 * __What is Copyright Law?__**

In Australia, copyright protection is there to protect the original expression of ideas. It protects the original maker from the ideas from having it stolen when someone else users it with no permission from the original creator.

The moment an idea or creative concept is documented on objects such as paper or an electrical devise, it is automatically protected by copyright. Australia automatically protects an original peace because there is no official registry or application process for copyright protection.

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The penalties for copyright law vary, depending on what was copied and who from such as an individual or a corporation. You can be imprisoned or fined depending on what and how you copyright an owners creation. If you were caught selling pirate copy DVD's or CD's at Dandenong Market for example, you can be fined and possible have to close your store down for good. In some cases, the plaintiff has not been able to pay the right amount of money so his/hers assets are sold and they can be imprisoned for sometimes. The amount of time they spend in prison is not very long at all.
 * __The Penalties of Breaking Copyright Law in Australia__**

A recent case of copyright law is when the song 'Down under' by Men At Work was said to have stolen the melody of a children’s song 'Kookaburra'. Kookaburra was written in 1932 where as Down Under was written in 1987. The area where the song Down Under was guilty for copyright was the part when the flute plays a similar melody to Kookaburra. This case was take place in Melbourne's Federal Court where the Men At Work were found guilty for plagiarism. The penalty was that they pay 5% of all royalties after the judge found that the flute riff from the song was plagiarized.
 * __Recent Case in Copyright Law__**

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__**The affect it has on:**__ __Internet service providers:__ Infringement will damage the reputation of what some very popular websites have such as Google because their users are using other website which are a copy of theirs. Although, the good this is that this would give new creators an idea to start on a develop from there such as social network pages and Bing which is similar to Google. __Musicians, clothes designers, movie makers and authors:__ Infringement on these types of people that make these particular things would make the 'new' get very 'old' fast. If the same thing were to be copied over and over again, consumers of these particular products would get bored very easily. Although, with the competition it would reduce prices for consumers to buy the sellers other than getting the same thing for more. __Consumers:__ The affect on consumers is that they could not be reserving the original or best quality things they consumer because of the cheaper versions in the market. The good side is that even though it may be a worse quality and not as original, the people that consume these products are receiving these products for a much less price than they were to pay for the real. __Record companies, publishing companies and studios:__ If there work were to be infringed, there would be no point of making the creation in the first place because it would be stolen by someone else and they would not get credit for their hard work. It does have a upside to it, new artists such as a DJ will be able to easily make music allowing him/she to possibly work with new and more artist making new songs with parts from another. __The Federal Government:__ If the Federal Government were to allow infringement, the economy of Australia would fall because of the copyrighting that would be going one, most likely privately. This causes businesses to fail because there are not making sales. For example, fake Beats are very popular and are bought by many people because they look real, sound almost as good and are much cheaper. Monster, the companies that owns Beats, lose a lot of money from this and so does everyone that has a contract of works for Monster.

Infringement can have a massive affect on the pricing of CD's, concerts and music merchandise. It affects CD's and its price massively because original copies are not been sold. This is due to downloading music for free or selling or giving away a burnt CD or a specific album. Artist and their producers are not making the revenue and so in order to reach the expected cash inflow so they must decease the price to enable demand. Concerts are not harshly affected like CD's, although it does get affected. artist that makes them different to everyone else such and Lady Gaga and Snoop Dogg who are very famous today wouldn't be is of artist came along earlier stealing the way they dress, perform, act... This affects the sales of concert tickets because some people would either get bored or see no point in spending their money of someone that is like everyone else.This would case the price to go down because of the lack of demand. Music Merchandise would be infringed cause people that want merchandise of of a particular thing dealing with music would rather pay less for it and a place such as a market that a shop where even though it is original, it is very expensive than what you would pay in a market. This would case the price to fall which case less profit for the producers.
 * __How might the increasing of copyright infringement might affect the price of CD's, concerts and music merchandise?__**

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