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Copyright infringement

Copyright infringement is the use of works protected by copyright law without permission, infringing certain exclusive rights granted to the copyright holder, such as the right to reproduce, distribute, display or perform the protected work, or to make derivative works. The copyright holder is typically the work's creator, or a publisher or other business to whom copyright has been assigned. Copyright holders routinely invoke legal and technological measures to prevent and penalize copyright infringement.
    • Terminology 

    • "Piracy" 

    • "Theft" 

    • "Freebooting" 

    • Motivation 

    • Developing world 

    • Motivations due to censorship 

    • Existing and proposed laws 

    • Civil law 

    • Criminal law 

    • Legality of downloading 

    • Relaxed penalties 

    • DMCA and anti-circumvention laws 

    • Definition of intermediary 

    • Litigation and legislation concerning intermediaries 

    • Peer-to-peer issues 

    • Non-infringing uses 

    • Non-infringing types of works 

    • Legal 

    • Protected distribution 

    • Watermarking 

    • Economic impact of copyright infringement 

    • Motion picture industry estimates 

    • Software industry estimates 

    • Music industry estimates 

    • Media industry estimates 

    • Criticism of industry estimates 

    • Economic impact of infringement in emerging markets 

    • Pro-free-culture organizations 

    • Anti-copyright-infringement organizations