Canada's Copyright Law

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recording artist, the actors, producers and everyone
else who collect royalties from the tapes lose money. If the companies
start to lose money, they raise prices. Thus a vicious circle begins. As
prices go up, fewer people buy original copies. If less people buy the
original cassettes prices will once again rise.

Another major form of piracy is plagiarism. The stealing of
someone elses ideas or work. The biggest category of people who fall into
here are students. Very often a student when doing a research paper will
"accidently" forget to footnote his work. By "forgetting" to give the
author credit, the student has claimed the work as his own. Another
reason students may copy someone else's work is to sound more
sophisticated hoping that if they use someone elses words it will sound
better than their own. Generally, this provides an easy way for a teacher
or the police to catch them.

Teachers also plagiarize rather frequently. Very often a teacher
will ...

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