Warez Trading and Criminal Copyright Infringement

SHYSTER and the Authorization of Copyright Infringement

The SHYSTER project is concerned with the development of a hybrid legal expert system: one which uses rule-based techniques to represent statute law and case-based techniques to represent case law. A prototype has been developed, implementing the case-based part of SHYSTER. This prototype allows a legal expert to specify an area of case law using a specially-developed case law speci cation lang...

The Challenges of Regulating Warez Trading

Software Copyright Infringement Among College Students

In recent years, the issue of infringement in the software industry has gained international attention as the demand for software continues to grow. The growing presence of unauthorised reproduction of copyrighted products inhibits full potential growth and discourages creative activity. This study analyses the extent of software copyright infringement among college students and attitudes of th...

Copyright Conundrum Liability of ISPs for Online Copyright Infringement

As digital rights holders become increasingly proactive in asserting their rights against infringers, Internet service providers (“ISPs”) are more frequently becoming embroiled in online copyright infringement disputes. ISPs have, in turn, become increasingly concerned about their potential exposure to liability for acts of copyright infringement committed by their subscribers using the ISPs' f...

Non-Verbatim Copyright Infringement Detection for Text

The Problem: Copyright infringement is a serious problem which threatened authors of creative works even in the non-electronic world. In the electronic world, easy access to electronic documents and the ease of reproducing and distributing these documents have made copyright infringement an even bigger problem. In general, the ease of reproducing and distributing online documents threatens not ...