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...

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...

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...

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 ...

It is feared that the ease with which digital media can be copied will lead to a proliferation of copyright infringement. One proposed technical solution is digital watermarking, which embeds a hidden signal into host data that can be used in a variety of protocols that attempt to either prevent or deter copyright infringement. In this paper, we give a brief overview of digital watermarking and...

The role that copyright protection plays in supporting creative industries, including film, music, videos, art, books, and photography is often debated among policy makers. Furthermore, new technologies for sharing creative goods create the potential for new forms of infringement, and challenge established methods of copyright enforcement. Drawing upon a new, extensive dataset on infringement a...