copyright

Copyright refers to laws that relates to the use of the work of a designer, artist or author. This includes copying, distributing, altering and displaying creative, literary and other types of work. Unless otherwise stated in a contract such a referencing , the author or designer of a work retains the copyright.

When researching the copyrighting system and how artist's and user's of the World Wide Web get sued by not following the copyright system law, I can across a video that was air live in the USA about two of the music artist that I listen Jay-z and Kanye West gets sued for using a sample for a track on their new album Watch the Throne.
"The joy" the bonus track who was originally produced by Johnson was not impressed when the two artist's used his track that was created in 1967. Def Jam Recording are now resolving the problem and paying back for copyrighting.

What happens if we get caught downloading illegally ?

The independent newspaper created a article discussing the factors what happens if we get caught using illegally software's to download our everyday favourite things i.e listening to music and watching the latest movies.
Illegal downloading in the UK has become a massive threat to the music and film industries. In 1997, 78 million singles were sold in the UK; last year, it was just 8.6 million. It is estimated that half the population has engaged in some sort of nefarious downloading in the last five years.
The article explain's the public problems they have experienced using illegal downloading.

To the left is a screenshot of the copyright law and how we can prevent getting illegal sued charges by following the guidelines of the system.
When reading the law guidelines they gave me a strong amount of background information on obtaining permission and referencing the originally creator.

The most popular illegal copyright system that we all mainly use in today's society is Downloading music tracks or movies.
Oracle crop sued the company SAP for $1.3 billion pounds for not paying business application software, for copyright infringement by a now-defunct software maintenance unit.

COPYRIGHTING AND SAMPLING ILLEGAL MUSIC

How are people caught downloading illegal files ?

Sites like the Pirate Bay and uTorrent haven't caught hundreds of millions of people to download endless amounts of free media content without making a few enemies. BitTorrent have built their businesses by outwitting MPAA and RIAA. The increased acceptance of illegally downloading media has affected the bottom line of the movie and music industry over the past years, and that isn't good news for torrent users.