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Describe violation of copyright privileges as applied to a scenario.

Assignment Requirements

This assignment builds upon “Discussion: Copyright and its Various Owner Rights.” In this assignment, you, the original composer and performing artist of a hot new pop song, need to:

Describe the specific intellectual property laws that were violated in your case.

Propose remedies the law provides for the violations.

Answer:

Scenario and Analysis

As an artist music one’s music is protected from illegal downloads or sharing by the copyright Law. In Saud Arabia copyright Laws was issued as per Royal decree No. M/41 dated August 30^th 2003. The Saudi copyright Law Protects all of the intellectual works of any type and the music that one produces fall under this category. The authors rights are protected until a period of 50 years after his or her death. In this case being an artist, my compositions are legally protected by the copyright law and copyright infringement is one of the leading challenges. There are several ways the copyright laws can be violated and are usually violated within the county, this involves illegal downloads from the internet, sharing of the music videos or the music content with others. This has significant effect to us the artist and leads to the loss of value of an artist hard work. This is referred to as copyright infringement. It is one of the leading problems in the music industry.

The law provides multiple remedies for violation of the copyright laws within the country; the Copyright laws makes distribution and performance of copyrighted works illegal. This has been one of the leading challenges in the music industry. One music is easily duplicated to others making the accessibility of the content very easy. Also, the distribution of this music content has been a major challenge for the copyright law violation. Different measures have been taken to control this violation (Field, 2015).

The law has taken different measure to control copyright infringement in the county, All the copyrightable work is protected once created but to show ownership for the artists, some jurisdictions require the registration to grant protection as a proof of ownership. Saud Arabia has been a member state of the Berne Convention for the protection of literary Artistic works since the year 2004 March 11^th. The law has put in place several measure to control this which includes a warning, this is the first measure as per the law where one is warned against this but when this continuous, the law has provisions for fines which do not exceed Saudi Riyals 250,000. Also, the law advocates for the closer of infringing outlets (Price & AlDebasi, 2017). This has been one of the most effective ways to fight copyright infringement. And finally, the law has the provision for imprisonment as well as the compensation for the owner and in our case the compensation of the artist. This compensation is usually proportionate to the damage done.

Summary

• Copyright laws and how they are violated.
• How the law deals with the violation of the copyright laws.
• Intellectual property and how its protected.

From the case study and the findings, it has become clear the implications associated with copyright infringement. This is a particular violation that affects the music industry a lot but with the set measures in place to control this, it is important for one to gain a deeper understanding of intellectual property laws. During the research there have been several cases of people who have been charged with copyright infringement and got charged by the law with fines of up to$1.5 million. This shows the magnitude of the violations. 

References

Field, L. (2015). Copyright Infringement and Musical Expression: Creating Specific Jury Instructions for Comparing Music. T. JefferSon l. rev., 38, 152.

Price, D., & AlDebasi, A. (2017). TRIPS and copyright and the nature of compliance in the Arabian Peninsula. In Protecting Intellectual Property in the Arabian Peninsula (pp. 97-131). Routledge.