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Business Laws: Joel Gibbs Case Study
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Question 1
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Gibb violated the copyright law by downloading numerous unlicensed songs without authorization. Under copyright laws, only the copyright holder can regenerate, distribute, or publicly perform the work. Copyright laws make it legal to download content from authorized and permitted affiliates. This is attributable to the fact that the law provides the copyright holders
or authors of original works the exclusive authority to control how their work is used (Savage et al., 2018). Authors frequently grant permits and certifications to authorized and certified partners, allowing anyone to access files via the internet. Gibb broke the law by downloading a large number of unlicensed songs from the internet. He infringed on the intellectual property rights of the copyright holder, which is against the law.
Question 2
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Yes, Gibb’s use of portions of copyrighted songs in his music was illegal. Gibb committed copyright infringement when he downloaded numerous songs on the internet without authorization.
Gibb obtained the music from an unlicensed internet source. He did not have the copyright holder's permission to copy, modify, convert, translate, or produce some works based on the original. As a result, Gibb infringed on copyright when he used a portion of these songs in
his music without permission. However, there is an exception to copyright infringement referred
to as fair use. Fair use allows for limited use of copyrighted material without first procuring approval from the copyright owner (Lee, 2018). Fair use is defined as using the work for purposes such as critique, analysis, factual reporting, education, and scientific studies. It is considered fair to use the work for non-commercial and non-profit purposes (Lee, 2018). Adding
something innovative to the songs, with a different goal or persona, while not replacing the
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original use of the work, is also acceptable. Gibb, on the other hand, copied a significant portion of the original work for profit and commercial purposes, which is not considered fair use since it does not fall under the exception of copyright infringement (Lee, 2018). Thus, using a portion of these materials in his songs was unlawful.
Question 3
No, individuals cannot legally post copyrighted content on their Facebook pages. This is because; only the copyright holder has the right to publicly display or perform the work. Hence, posting the copyrighted material is regarded as a copyright infringement (Savage et al., 2018). Since the owner has exclusive rights to duplication, dispersion, and public presentation of the works, a license is required to post such content.
Question 4
Yes, Boston University violated certain laws when it asked Joel to provide his Facebook password. When an employer requests an applicant's login information, they violate laws such as
privacy laws and federal laws such as Computer Fraud, Abuse Act, and Stored Communications Act (Cross & Miller, 2020).
According to the law, requesting this information could be considered coercion if the applicant feels compelled to comply or run the risk of losing their application slot. This is regarded as a breach of the applicant's social media account privacy, which is illegal under both state and federal laws. When it comes to sharing personal information, potential or present workers have the right to private information under the charter of rights and freedoms (Cross & Miller, 2020). The passcodes they use on social media platforms
safeguard their individual information from being accessed by people they haven't allowed or
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who they don't want to see it. Hence Boston University violated privacy and federal laws when it
asked Joel to hand in his Facebook login passwords.
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References
Cross, F. B., & Miller, R. L. (2020). The legal environment of business: Text and cases. Cengage
Learning.
Lee, E. (2018). Fair Use Avoidance in Music Cases. SSRN Electronic Journal. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3232783
Savage, P. E., Cronin, C., Müllensiefen, D., & Atkinson, Q. D. (2018, June). Quantitative evaluation of music copyright infringement. In Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Folk Music Analysis (FMA2018) (pp. 61-66).