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Kevin Kearney
May 4, 2003
MGT 251 / Extra Credit
Internet Copyright Laws
A student comes home to his dorm at the University of Scranton after a rough day
of classes. With the quick internet connection provided on the school's network, the
student makes a few clicks and logs into Morpheus, a program that enables music fans to
download free music. Within a few minutes he is on his way to owning an unlimited
amount of songs at no cost. Everything this student is doing is legal, right? Wrong. The
downloaded music from the internet is copyrighted material.
Today's internet is considered an "information superhighway," a device where
anything from music, books, programs and information can be shared worldwide. Since
billions of people have the ability to access the internet, the content of the internet can be
difficult to regulate. One controversy which has risen because people can transmit and
share information broadly via the internet is that of copyright......

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