Procedure to determine compliance

Copyright is a very important factor for the companies at this present moment of time. The Copyright Act of 1968 is used as reference for this policy. Reportedly there have been various types of copyright issues that indicated the need of strict policy for the companies against the copyright infringement issues (Litman, 2017). The policies that are developed would be providing the management assistance in protecting copyright for the company and any type of repercussions for the company. The following policies can be developed for the management to provide protection from the copyright infringement issues:

Usage of the technology based deterrents

The company should make use of the technology based deterrents such as bandwidth shapers and traffic monitors (Austin, 2016). They bandwidth shapers would be restricting the data usage in the company and this would prevent huge amount of data from within the company to be transferred. The traffic monitoring would allow the analyzer to detect the type of data that is being transferred from the company. In addition to this, they should also accept the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and respond to the notices issues by the Act. They should also block the pirated products and also block the illegal shaping of the files.

Educating and informing the staffs

The company should look to educate its staffs about copyright protection and the importance of it (Morrision & Secker, 2015). They should also make them realize the importance of the copyright for the company and as well as for the individuals. They should also make the staffs aware about the policies that are to be implemented and make them understand the utility of these polices and also train them in order to abide by the company polices. This would prevent copyright infringement within the company.

Adopting procedures for handling the unauthorized distribution of the copy right materials

The management of the company would be monitoring the staffs and their activities regarding the unauthorized use of the copyright materials from within the company. They would also be able to track the data that is going out of the company and hence, they would be able to keep track on the data of the company and see to it that no issues of copyright infringement take place. They would also decide on the level of infringement that had taken place and would be taking immediate actions on the situation (Rehbein & Rumpf, 2017). They would warn the staffs that are taking part in these activities and take severe actions in these incidents keep taking place and occur more frequently.

Processes for review and assessment

All the procedures and the operations of the company should be review efficiently so that the areas of the fault can be understood easily. They can also be restricted by repeated analysis. In addition to this, the review of the system should be done regularly so that they would be able to have sufficient amount of data for the assessment of the situation. They also review the policy regularly and upgrade it according to their needs.

Recommendations for change

For copyright owners and the industry group should be more careful in the future so that they are not affected by the infringement in the future. The TCM has expressed that threats such as bootlegging would be increased in the future. ACME merchandisings have also agreed that the infringements would continue to grow. Hence, the authorities should be improving their policies and act in accordance to the policies.

References

Austin, G. W. (2016). Authors’ Human Rights and Copyright Policy. Colum. JL & Arts, 40, 405.

Litman, J. (2017). Digital copyright.

Morrison, C. M., & Secker, J. (2015). Copyright Literacy in the UK: a survey of librarians and other cultural heritage sector professionals. Library and Information Research, 39(121), 75-97.

Rehbein, F., & Rumpf, H. J. (2017). OP-94: Policy guidelines of situational prevention measures in internet related disorders: Results of a German expert group commissioned by the federal ministry of health. Journal of Behavioral Addictions, 6(S1), 45-46.