When a site of interest affords the opportunity to download music files, the user happily does so. I'm just trying to benefit from the myriad information made available on the Internet. Users generally intend to exploit the Cyberspace resource reservoir and assume that resources situated at sites are legitimately available for downloading and the like. The developer's vantage point is more complicated and perhaps somewhat convoluted. A multimedia work developed for Web sites may consist of color-accented text, images, video, animation and various special effects.
Developers thus seek to incorporate attention-getting objects into site code and database.
Such objects may be created anew or may be obtained from a variety of sources of pre-existing materials. But, if a developer acquires an object, e.g., a musical rendition of an excerpt from a popular song, and then incorporates this object into what becomes a popular Web site, the owner of the song or the owner's agents and representatives are apt to become aware of this use. If a license has not been obtained to use this song, the owner will not be happy. This, of course, may cause the developer to become unhappy too. The solution, unfortunately, is generally nonlinear.