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Copyright is a right given to the originator of almost any product or thing for a certain amount of years, meaning that no one else can legally copy there product and make a profit out of it. This can lead the original owner of the product to prosecute the person who copied there work, which could lead to the copycat losing a certain sum of money or having a prison sentence. Copyright laws have been in the UK for around 70 years meaning that the country have been given access to films and games from other countries such as the USA for that amount of time. The image above also has a link underneath to give credit to the owner as part of copyright.
Advantages
This means that by creating something and wanting to make a profit out of it, copyrighting it would mean only you could legally make a profit from the product that you created. Furthermore if registration of copyright is made within 3 months of publication of the specific work at any time prior to an infringement of the work, the copyright owner is entitled to seek statutory damages and attorney's fees in federal court.
Disadvantages
the disadvantages of copyright is that it can be on limited time that a certain product can be copyrighted by the original owner, meaning that anytime prior to that, the product could possibly be duplicated without punishment.
Ethical
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Ethical constraints can show the rights and the wrongs of laws. For example, in the gaming industry people claim that games are the main source for violence because of there bloody nature, so that violent games shouldn't be aloud, whereas games like this, makes large sums of profit for the industry making it bigger then the film industry, making it ethical for business.
Advantages
if a business is ethical towards its customers and workers for example; meaning it would need to apply principles of honesty and fairness to relationships between the two. This would likely be one of the main points in making the business a successful one.
Disadvantages
Ethics also have its disadvantages, for example, using this in a company, would also likely reduce its freedom to maximize its overall profit, by moving a manufacturing facility to a developing country to reduce costs.