Un student din Braşov riscă o pedeapsă de 12 ani pentru piraterie
Ofiţerii de Poliţie din cadrul Inspectoratului Judeţean de Poliţie Braşov - Serviciul de Investigare a Fraudelor - sub supravegherea Parchetului de pe lângă Tribunalul Braşov au depistat un student care oferea spre vânzare CD-uri şi DVD-uri inscripţionate cu opere protejate.
Studentul în vârstă de 20 de ani folosea programe de torrent şi DC++pentru a descărca muzică şi filme, pe care apoi le vindea prin intermediul anunţurilor postate pe internet. Livrarea produselor se făcea prin colete poştale, iar valoarea acestora, în funcţie de numărul produselor solicitate,era cuprinsă între 80 şi 120 de lei pe colet.
Copyright is based on a simple idea - people who create, produce or invest in creative works should be those who decide on how these creations are used and released to the public.
Copyright law says that copyright owners’ rights are allowed to establish terms regarding copying, distribution and dissemination of their works.This givestalented people an incentive to continue, and gives entrepreneurs the economic reasons to invest in creative works.
Copyright is an extraordinary economic foundation for tens of millions of jobs worldwide.And also has a significant contribution to state budgets. According to the latest estimates in Europe and the U.S., the financial value of copyright-based industries is of 360 billion Euros, 430 billion dollars respectively, which represents more than 5% of GDP.
The amplitude of artistic and cultural developments existing today would not be possible without strong copyright protections that already have a tradition for several decades.
Music piracy is a general term used to describe the deliberate infringement of the law of copyright and related rights involving the unauthorized reproduction and exploitation of products bearing such rights.
Reproduction and sale of sound recordings or audiovisual works protected by copyright without the copyright holders agreement is prohibited by law on pain of punishment by imprisonment.Penalty limits are determined by the authorities based on criteria such as commercial purposes, very serious consequences, criminal participation in an organized criminal group, repeated acts of piracy, etc.
The most common forms of piracy are the physical and the digital piracy.
1. Physical piracy
Is the classic form of piracy occurs when a person makes pirate products - nauthorized copies of copyright protected products - in order to distribute them.Copyright law not only condemns the acts of unauthorized reproduction, but also conemns acts of distribution and possession, transport of and advetisments for pirated goods in order to be marketed.Even the refuse to declare the origin of pirated goods is punishable with imprisonment or criminal fines.
2.Online (digital) piracy
Online communications and the disposal of products as a digital information facilitated the exploitation of works and products protected by copyright and related rights in the digital environment.
This includes most Internet piracy.Any action to provide on or to the public (in whatever form) a musical work on witch you don’t have copyright, is piracy.Sharing is a crime, even if material benefits are not obtained, and is governed by Article 8 of Law 139 index 8/ 1996 as amended.
Most often, this happens when individual users of DC ++ type programs, Torrent, etc. bring to share files and folders from hard disk that contain protected musical works.Thus, they become publicly available and as can downloaded directly from the computer where shared.
Warning!Legal purchase of a songdoes not entitle public share. The song that is purchased carries with it only the right to your personal use or within your family and circle of friends.Any other usage of this work is charged separately.
În atenţia Domnului Teodor Paleologu, Ministrul Culturii, Cultelor şi Patrimoniului Naţional
Poziţia artiştilor români faţă de decizia Guvernului României de a respinge Proiectul de Directivă privind prelungirea termenului de protecţie a înregistrărilor sonore
