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    Copyright is the exclusive right to copy or reproduce a creative work or to sell certain rights to the work. These rights apply to literary, artistic, dramatic, or musical works in a tangible form. Generally, facts, themes, ideas, most titles, names, catch-phrases and other short-word combinations are not protected under copyright. For a writer, copyright is the exclusive right to the reproduction and use of any creative material. The copyright is originally held by the author*, but these rights

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    and reproduce in their own style. Hence, this turned the song into the popular parody. The District Court granted summary judgment for 2 Live Crew that their reproduce song was a parody which mad under fair use purpose under section 107 of the US copyright law. While the Court of Appeals reversed and remanded, stated that the parody could cause

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    another creator’s work. This results in one of the primary issues that those is media production face: proper copyright rights for the use of a creative work for the production of a derivative work. When one creates a work, in order to legally possess the rights to it and be recognized as the creator one must get a copyright. Within the laws of the United states (title 17, U.S. Code) a copyright protects your work from other individuals that attempt to use it for their own gain weather its personal or

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    The Development of U.S Copyright Law Simon Cho The history of U.S copyright law came from England. As a matter of fact, copyright was not intended to reward creators but to prevent sedition. As the number of presses grew in late fifteenth century in England, the authorities started to grant control over the publication of books to a group of printers, called the Stationers’ Company in mid-sixteenth century. The Licensing Act of 1662 confirmed that licensed printers have the right to publish

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    's consent. As a result, Ms Hejduk brought up an action before the Handelsgericht in Wien, for damages against Energie Agentur and for authorisation to publish the judgment at the expense of the defendant. That Energie Agentur has infringed her copyright for making her photographs publicly available without her consent and without providing a statement of authorship. Ms Hejduk in justifying the selection of that jurisdiction relies on Article 7(2) Regulation 1215/2012. Energie Agentur raised an

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    Arka Bani Maini (10020510 ) Mid term paper on IPR : Copyrights Intellectual Property Intellectual Property refers to all the intangible creations of the human mind, from scientific inventions to literary and artistic works; from symbols to names and images used in commerce. Earlier, Neo classical economics considered land, labour and capital as things of value. But slowly information and energy are replacing them as wealth creating assets.[1]As , the world gets more and more mobile , information

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    effective law should include creating law adapts to society’s changes. However, change hasn’t occurred yet. The American copyright law only gets more controversial as it butts its way in. There is now a three-way skirmish between creators, large corporations and legislature for a simple reason. It is preventing creative freedom and distribution of content online. The American copyright law is ironically limiting much of this generation’s creativity by preventing exposure, criminalizing the wrong people

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    The Entangled Political Economy of Copyright Colin Harris1 ABSTRACT: This paper uses the entangled political economy framework developed by Wagner (2014) to analyze the effects that copyright legislation has on content producers and pirate communities. I identify Digital Rights Management (DRM) technologies as part of the superfluous discovery process that results when politically enforced copyright legislation works to subsidize the cost of creating property rights in creative goods. I also analyze

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    well as symbols, names and images used in commerce. The World Property Organization (n.d.) categorizes intellectual property into two categories, which are industrial property and copyright. Industrial property includes trademarks, patents for inventions, and industrial designs and geographical indications. Copyright includes music, films, literary and artistic works (World Intellectual Property Organization, n.d.). The World Intellectual Property Organization (n.d.) helps one understand the importance

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    from the media and then public debates ensue about which party is in the right. Society has an array of opinions when it comes to copyright, fair use, and appropriation. Many people do not understand the specifics about copyright laws nor do they comprehend how one can truly break these laws fully. More often than not, people are familiar with at least the phrases copyright, appropriation and fair use. But the legitimate points are fairly skewed by the public.

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