Copyright infringement occurs whenever copyrighted material is copied from or posted to a website without authorization from the copyright owner. This section discusses the various ways that information can be transferred between your site and its users and the copyright conflicts that may arise with each. Just as users can sometimes post information onto a website, a user may — in the reverse process — take material from the website and transfer it to the user’s own computer. This is typically done either by downloading or by copying and pasting. Many sites are set up for users to download material. Shareware sites, for example, allow users to download software they want by clicking on a downloadable file, which will then be transferred onto the user’s computer. Another way of obtaining material from websites is to select text, copy, and paste it into a word processing document on the user’s computer. Strictly speaking this is not downloading, but the effect is the same. The user has obtained material from the website and copied it onto his or her own computer.