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This 6-page paper involves a case study detailing moral, ethical and legal behavior on the Internet. The main topic of the paper is copyright law, and the options available to a fictitious young woman who found her photo stolen and posted over the web. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: D0_MTcopint.rtf
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Sally, who took a picture of herself nude and blurred the results to present a "romantic" business of photos rather than hard-core porn, finds herself in serious trouble when she
learns that the desktop photo enhancer she had did nothing to blur her lines (meaning, in a sense, she had a nude picture of herself on the Internet). Worse still,
people were making copies of her picture and circulating it to their friends. Meanwhile, the photo editing software shed used never removed the original image - meaning the original image
was uncovered with little effort. Based on this scenario, some questions arise dealing both with legal and ethical questions. First, assuming that
Sally made no mention of copyright on her website, was it legal for viewers to copy per posted image, uncover it, then post the original image? If not legal, was
it ethical? Second, how would this change if Sally specifically stated on her website that visitors could copy any images on the
website, as long as they give photographer full credit? Third, does Sally have a case for copyright infringement or intentional inflection of
emotional pain? Should she ethically bring a suit if she has a legal right to do so? Who would the defendant be?
And finally, could Sally have a case against the makers of the photo editing software? In this paper, well examine both copyright
law as it pertains to the Internet and cyberspace, and what can be considered ethical and correct. Internet copyright law might seem somewhat confusing on the surface (and many times,
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