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第四册;UNIT 3;Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana. ;Background Information; Copyright is a legal term describing rights given to creators for their literary and artistic works. Nowadays in the digital age, the digital technology and digital communications networks such as the Internet and personal computers have raised challenging issues for copyright protection due to the ease of reproduction, dissemination and storage of copyrighted creative works. In this unit, the status quo of phenomena associated with copyright such as movie and book piracy will be presented, various factors contributing to the phenomena will be discussed, and potential solutions to the copyright infringement problem will be considered. Students will acquire a better and more thorough understanding about copyright protection through various listening, watching, reading and speaking activities. They will also conduct real-life learning projects like surveying college students’ awareness of copyright and debating on “Movie Piracy Sentence: Does the Punishment Fit the Crime” with their peers to put what they have learned in class into use. ;Background Information; Copyright protection includes both economic rights and moral rights. Copyright owners enjoy economic rights with a time limit of 50 years after the creator’s death according to the relevant WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization) treaties. Such a limit enables both creators and their heirs to benefit financially for a reasonable period of time. Moral rights, on the other hand, involve the right to claim authorship of a work, and the right to oppose changes to it that could harm the creator’s reputation.; The primary purpose of copyright law is not so much to protect the interests of the authors/creators, but rather to promote the progress of science and the useful arts----- that is --- knowledge. To accomplish this purpose, copyright ownership encourages authors/creators in their e