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Unit 12. Intellectual Property Rights and

Music Piracy

Lead-in

Exercise 1. Starting up:

1. What do you know about piracy?

2. Do you think that music belongs to everybody or music copyrights should be strictly observed?

Listening

Exercise 2. Listen to the report on music piracy and say what has happened to music sales over the past decade and how music bands have suffered from the music piracy (“The Economist”, November 14^th 2009).

Exercise 3. Listen to the report again and complete the following statements:

1. While it is by no means over, the struggle against music piracy is going better than at any point since the appearance of Napster, a file-sharing service, __________ ago.

2. In many countries music sales to consumers have fallen by more than ______.

3. Even Apple's popular digital iTunes store is little more than a niche service: fully _________of down­loads are illegal.

4. But by reducing the money available to sign and tout new artists, file-sharing has made it harder for _____________ to become established.

Vocabulary and Reading

Exercise 4. You are going to read the report on the problem of music piracy. Match the English phrases with their Russian equivalents:

1. illegal downloads	незаконное скачивание
2. in decline	подсудимый, ответчик
3. a defendant	приобретать движущую силу
4. to discourage piracy	дифференцированные ответные действия
5. to suffer severely	неудовлетворенный спрос
6. an unmet demand	жестокий
7. to be spared the ads	файловый хостинг
8. to gain momentum	противодействовать пиратству
9. to ratchet up the pressure	обходиться без рекламы
10. a graduated-response	серьезно пострадать от чего-л
11. file-sharing service	в состоянии упадка
12. brutal	усиливать давление

Exercise 5. Read the report on music piracy and decide if the following statements are true (T) or false (F):

1. Napster was an illegal file-sharing service that was shut down by the courts.

2. Online music piracy cannot be in decline.

3. For most of the past decade the music industry focused on litigation to try to prevent piracy.

4. Spotify offers free, advertising-supported streams.

5. The recorded-music industry will disappear soon.

6. Graduated-response laws were introduced earlier this year in China and South Korea.

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