Copyright Definition

Today, there are additional laws that cover the Internet, and the use of copyrighted work on websites and shared through networking sites. The Internet makes it easy to copy and paste a written work, and sometimes assumptions are made about what is deemed to be ‘fair use’ of copyrighted material. Since every case is unique, and depending on the severity of the violation, there are often different ways to handle each incident. This might include a simple enforcement to remove the copied material from a website, to an actual lawsuit, which could cost the defendant as much as $100,000 per violation.

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