Piracy
Piracy is the unauthorised duplication of an original recording for commercial gain without the consent of the rights owner.
The packaging of pirate copies is different from the original.
Copyright
Copyright is the right to prevent others from copying a work of authorship. The people that create, produce or invest in creative work should be the ones that decide how that work should be reproduced and made available to the public. The exclusive right to make and dispose of copies of a musical or artistic work. The exclusive right to make and dispose of copies of a musical or artistic workIf you don’t hold the copyright you can’t sell or even give away unauthorized copies of disc without permission.
Why Piracy is Illegal?
Copyright provides that the rights holders determine whether and how copying, distributing, broadcasting and other uses of their works take place.This gives talented people the incentive to create great works, and organizations the economic reasons to invest in them.
So these rights include the exclusive right to commercially copy the recordings and to distribute/import/export those copies.It is these rights that enable law enforcement bodies to take criminal action against those who copy and distribute music without the permission of the record companies that invested in producing it.
They also allow record producers to take civil actions to recover compensation for damages suffered as a result of music piracy. |