The music copyright law

One of the best ways to entertain ourselves is by listening to the music.  And with the existence of freemusic download sites, anyone can save thousands of songs to their computers and can listen to this songs anytime they want. However, do you know that downloading free music online is illegal? Yes, this might embarrass anyone but there is actually a law on this.  A music copyright law that states, a certain song or music cannot be downloaded unless there is a permission from the material’s owner. In addition, you can also only download a music by purchasing it. And for you to purchase them, there are online shops that are certified sellers like Amazon, Apple’s iTunes Music Store, Napster, Yahoo Music Unlimited and many more. Other than that, if you want to use the music for a certain, you must give credit to the music artist. Otherwise, that will also mean breaking the music copyright law.

This music copyright law exists in order to defend the professional musicians to make their own living from their own recordings. That is why we sometimes witness some superstars at present but later on, they are already running for money. The free downloading of music online can also cause music stores to close down because of bankrupty.

Probably, if you have a favorite song artists, it may just be better if you purchased his or her album as a part of helping her. It might be easy to say that you may never find out by the authorities downloading illegally. But, this is life, it is unpredictable sometimes. You will never know when you can’t pick lucky and get screwed in this kind of situations. So better you shouldn’t download illegally. It is better to spend less money on music than paying your future in courts.

Why free movies and music are illegal?

How can you differentiate free and legal music downloads? This means differentiating an illegal act to a legal one since downloading free music online is considered piracy according to the law passed by the US congress, the SOPA or Stop Online Piracy Act. This bill passed and approved in the US congress became controversial most especially when one of the biggest file sharing network in the world, Megaupload, was shut downed by the FBI. But due to the fact that downloading music and movies from file sharing network like Megaupload, this is really an entire illegal activity and no one can oppose the decision of the US government to shutdown any. Movies and music are copyrighted works and according to the agreement, you cannot download a movie or a music unless you pay for it.

Moreover, at some point, downloading music and movies for free should still be called legal since the main source of it obviously purchased the file and did not steal it to any recording company or whatever it is. It should only be illegal if the person who downloads it will take advantage for its own sake like selling the downloaded movie or music. This case applies to the vendors of piracy movies. Aside from recording the movies from theatres, perhaps, at some point, the movies that they burned into DVD’s came from downloaded movies. Although, there was no clear indication of that as their procedure but because the fact that we are now living in a high tech world, there is a great chance that is possible. In addition, to think wisely, it is more less time consuming to download movies than going to theatres and record the whole movie and get themselves into sweat. Therefore, this should be their main priority first, to eliminate vendors selling crap copy of DVD movies.