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were violated. The illegal downloading of music impinged on what he perceived as rights. In effect, he was talking about copyright law. In fact, he and his band members should
be compensated every time someone accesses his music. This issue really pertains to the illegal downloading of music, a case that saw Napster in the spotlight, but downloading has been
a copyringt issue as it respects other mediums. Most are familiar with the commercial of sorts that appears at the start of every DVD where illegal downloading is highlighted. Of
course, copyright is nothing new and has always been associated with book authors. Before going further into this ethical area, it pays to define copyright. What is copyright
exactly? A definition from the Online Ethics Center is as follows: "A legal right (usually of the author or composer or publisher of a work) to exclusive publication production, sale,
distribution of some work. What is protected by the copyright is the "expression," not the idea. Notice that taking anothers idea is plagiarism, so copyrights are not the equivalent of
legal prohibition of plagiarism" ("Online Ethics Center," 2006). Here, one can see that while copyright is not exactly the same thing as plagiarism, plagiarism sometimes enters the picture. For example,
after a certain number of years, a copyright is exhausted and writers can use the work as their own, but actually, that would be a form of plagiarism. Copyright protects
the work legally for a certain length of time, but works of art ethically belong to the artist forever. Still, while copyright is a technical issue, it is something that
has come under fire. Copyright is a very important ethical issue. The music downloading issue, and the Napster case, brings the quandary to the forefront. It serves as a good
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