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Copyright is the legal protection for creators/owners of creative work such as music, images and films to prevent anyone copying their work without permission.
Film and TV copyright laws are designed to protect those involved in a TV program or movie’s creation, production, sale, distribution and screening. Copyright automatically belongs to the creator of an original work and in Australia generally lasts for the life of the creator plus 70 years. An Australian film is copyright protected for 70 years from the time it is completed.
Whoever owns the copyright is free to use the work in anyway they like. They can give away or sell their rights, change the content, and enter into agreements that allow for the work’s sale, distribution and screening.
The following resources will help explain in more detail copyright theft (piracy) in Australia and how it affects each and every Australian. For more detailed information please use the links below. These resources are regularly updated so please visit again.
FAQ'S
Find out the answers to frequently asked piracy questions here.
Have you received a Copyright Infringement Notice from your ISP?
Need to know more?
Consumer Guides
For a consumer's guide to what's ok and what's not so ok when it comes to copyright, click the links below:
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Internet [ pdf | doc ]
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Illegal File-Sharing (The Risks Aren’t Worth It)
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How to tell if a movie or TV show is pirated
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Facts about piracy, and (Piracy – The Facts)
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In 2007, state and federal police conducted 85 raids involving movie piracy and seized over 585,000 pirated DVDs. They also seized 459 burners capable of producing over eleven million pirated DVDs a year with a potential street value of over $57 million.
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Illegal motion picture and television piracy is a thriving international enterprise. The Motion Picture Association (MPA) estimates that its member companies lose approximately US$1.2 billion each year in potential revenue in the Asia-Pacific region alone, and US$6.1 billion globally. Sixty two percent of the $6.1 billion loss results was from piracy of hard goods such as DVDs, while thirty eight percent is from internet piracy. Piracy rates (calculated as legitimate revenue plus estimated revenue lost to piracy in each market) are highest in China (90 percent), Russia (79 percent) and Thailand (79 percent).
The worldwide motion picture industry, including foreign and domestic producers, distributors, theaters, video stores and pay-per-view operators, lose $18.2 billion each year as a result of piracy. A 2005 survey by MPA and LEK Cosulting found the typical pirate is age 16-24 and male.
In many countries, MPA member company losses are far outstripped by production, theatrical exhibition, home video distribution losses to local industry, as well as losses to governments in uncollected tax revenues. Consumer spending losses on filmed entertainment worldwide are estimated at US$18.2 billion.
In 2007, the MPA's operations in the Asia-Pacific region investigated more than 36,200 cases of piracy and assisted law enforcement officials in conducting nearly 13,000 raids. These activities resulted in the seizure of more than 31 million illegal optical discs, 40 factory optical disc production lines and 6,400 optical disc burners, as well as the initiation of more than 10,000 legal actions.
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