I.     Basics of Copyright Law

A.     Originality & creativity - § 102(a)

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a.   Artistic "T"

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Construction in One Dimension
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        1.    What is protected?

        2.    Expression

b. "T" accounts

 

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2.    Doctrine of merger - combines § 102(a)-(b)

3.     Independent creation

4.      How much originality is required? 

5.     Human creation

       a.    Computer-generated works

        b.    Animal creators

        c.    Others - See Urantia Foundation v. Maaherra,
                114 F.3d 955 (9th Cir. 1997)

                            http://urantiabook.org/archive/history/message082152.htm

                d.    Penguin Books v. New Christian Church of Full Endeavor Ltd., 60
                        P.T.C.J. 300 (S.D.N.Y. 2000)

B.     Fixation - § 102(a)

C.     Ineligibility for copyright protection

        1.    § 102(b) - facts, ideas, processes, discoveries, concepts

        2.    Public domain

        3.    § 105 - works produced by federal government

D.    Notice of copyright - § 401(b)

1.     ©     2000       Laura N. Gasaway

2.     Effects of lack of notice

3.     Unusual notices

http://www.photo.net/philg/nasty-copyright-notice.html

http://www.lme.mankato.msus.edu/mankato/disc.html

http://sunsite.unc.edu/wm/about/license.html

E.     Term of copyright

        1.    Life + 50, now 70

        2.    Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act

        3.    When works pass into the public domain

                http://www.unc.edu/~unclng/public-d.htm

F.    Exclusive rights - § 106

1.     Reproduction

2.     Distribution

3.     Adaptation

4.     Performance

5.     Display

6.    Digital performance of sound recordings

        A.    Literary works

                1.    General

                2.    Software
 

        B.    Musical works
 

    d.    Pantomimes and choreographic works