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Determining Legal and Ethical Responsibility for Copyright Infringement



As has often been stated in the legal research of intellectual property cases, the music industry cannot indict and hold liable the entire distribution channel and value chain of their industry for illegally downloading and using music. Instead aspects of the distribution channels and the roles of lateral-based channel partners that enable the ability to illegally share intellectual property is who the ethical burden and legal responsibility needs to rest on (Levin, Dato-on, Manolis, 2007). This includes all manufacturers of systems, media players, laptop computers with media playing capability, and developers of devices which can download music, all of which have widely varying Digital Rights Management (DRM) strategies, technologies and techniques. DRM-based strategies are meant to ensure that digitally mastered intellectual property is not illegally re-distributed or resold (Levin, Dato-on, Manolis, 2007). The many instances of how DRM schemes, technologies and systems have been broken into or hacked with instructions made freely available over the Internet how to use these techniques to also illegally copy content is proliferating over the Web (Lysonski, Durvasula, 2008). The ethical responsibility for illegal music distribution is actually the responsibility of these companies, services, and technology

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