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A legal concept that grants the creator of an original work exclusive rights to its use and distribution.

Copyright is a legal concept, enacted by most governments, that grants the creator of an original work exclusive rights to its use and distribution, usually for a limited time, with the intention of enabling the creator of intellectual property to receive compensation for their work.

From Copyright on Wikipedia.

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Why tech giants are unable to prevent piracy/cam(rip)?

In India, almost all movies are available on the internet on the same day of their release. The available movies are of camera print (cam rip) quality, which are recorded from camcorders, from the theater where the movie airs. This is a big issue…
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Tierra y Libertad attribution to Orwell, and films based on books in general

Tierra y Libertad (Land and Freedom) by Ken Loach (1995) tells a story of a British volunteer in the Spanish Civil War. For anyone who read George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia, it is more than obvious that the film is entirely based on the book.…
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Who owns The Lone Ranger these days?

News has it that Universal Studios is working on the next Green Hornet reboot, The Green Hornet and Kato. What about Britt Reid's great uncle, the Lone Ranger? Have the film rights to him reverted away from Disney and Jerry Bruckheimer by now? If…
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Is it illegal to make a video jukebox?

I want to put my DVDs on a NAS so I can have a video jukebox and play movies without having to set up a hardware player and stick the disk in. However, when I talked to a video handling company about doing this work, they said they cannot work with…
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Why are all good movies restricted in Egypt?

Starting from youtube movies to other websites like crackle, all of them are restricted in Egyp. I provided some screenshots as examples but almost all websites with good Hollywood movies and Canadian series/shows are restricted. If a few movies are…
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