Online piracyOnline piracy or software piracy is the practice of downloading and distributing copyrighted works digitally without permission, such as music or software. The principle behind piracy has predated the creation of the Internet, but its online popularity arose alongside the internet. Despite its explicit illegality in many developed countries, online piracy is still widely practiced, due to both the ease with which it can be done, the often defensible ethics behind it, and access to files that would normally cost money.
GéoblocageLe géoblocage ou blocage géographique est une technologie qui restreint l'accès au contenu Internet en fonction de l'emplacement géographique de l'utilisateur. Dans un schéma de blocage géographique, l'emplacement de l'utilisateur est déterminé à l'aide de techniques de géolocalisation, telles que la recherche de l'adresse IP de l'utilisateur dans une liste noire, une liste blanche ou une liste de comptes, et la mesure du délai de bout en bout d'une connexion réseau pour estimer l'emplacement physique de l'utilisateur.
Copyright aspects of hyperlinking and framingIn copyright law, the legal status of hyperlinking (also termed "linking") and that of framing concern how courts address two different but related Web technologies. In large part, the legal issues concern use of these technologies to create or facilitate public access to proprietary media content — such as portions of commercial websites.
Copyright formalitiesCopyright formalities are legal (generally statutory) requirements needed to obtain a copyright in a particular jurisdiction. Common copyright formalities include copyright registration, copyright renewal, copyright notice, and copyright deposit. Copyright formalities had certain benefits to users and holders of copyrights. First, they made determination of copyright status fairly easy.
Contributory copyright infringementContributory copyright infringement is a way of imposing secondary liability for infringement of a copyright. It is a means by which a person may be held liable for copyright infringement even though he or she did not directly engage in the infringing activity. In the United States, the Copyright Act does not itself impose liability for contributory infringement expressly. It is one of the two forms of secondary liability apart from vicarious liability.
Bill GatesWilliam Henry Gates , dit Bill Gates , né le à Seattle (État de Washington) est un informaticien, entrepreneur et milliardaire américain. Il est connu pour être le cofondateur de Microsoft en 1975 et son principal actionnaire jusqu’en 2014. Grâce au succès commercial de l'empire Microsoft, il est l’un des hommes les plus riches du monde depuis 1992. Le magazine Forbes le consacre 18 fois "homme le plus riche de l'année" entre 1994 et 2017. En 2021, malgré sa mise en retrait de la plupart de ses fonctions, Bill Gates reste la de la planète, avec de dollars.
TechdirtTechdirt is an American Internet blog that reports on technology's legal challenges and related business and economic policy issues, in context of the digital revolution. It focuses on intellectual property, patent, information privacy and copyright reform in particular. The website was founded in 1997 by Mike Masnick. It was originally based on the weblog software Slash. Techdirt's content is based on reader submissions as well as the editorial staff's picks. The website makes use of MySQL, Apache, and PHP, and is hosted at ActionWeb.
Section 230Section 230 is a section of Title 47 of the United States Code that was enacted as part of the Communications Decency Act of 1996, which is Title V of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, and generally provides immunity for online computer services with respect to third-party content generated by its users. At its core, Section 230(c)(1) provides immunity from liability for providers and users of an "interactive computer service" who publish information provided by third-party users: No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.
