Copyright law is one of the many liabilities of ISP’s; it is related to a larger area of intellectual properties. ... Lately the copyright law seems to be a concern for every one as in the digital context the distribution and copying of material is very easy. ... ISP’s are liable for copyright infringements because it can be used as a medium by any customer to exchange or provide any type of -information. ...
Any one can be liable of copyright infringements if violates any one of the five following conditions:
1. ... right to prepare derivative work
(Harris, Lesley Ellen, 2001, pg 245)
Three types of copyright infringement direct, contributory and vicarious. ... (Rustad, Michael & Cyrus, Daftary, 2001, pg 202)
The US and Canadian Copyright law have exception of some terminology and duration differences are almost same. The difference is in the duration of copyright which was changed in 1998 from author’s life plus fifty to plus seventy whereas in Canada the duration is author’s life plus fifty. ... Under the employment situations the owner of the copyright is the person for whom the work is prepared under the US law whereas under Canadian Copyright Act the owner of the copyright would be the original creator. In 1998 the addition of Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) updated the US Copyright Act. DMCA include the management of copyright Act in the context of all new technologies. ... The continuous downloading of content from internet usually violates the Copyright Act.
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