Copyright Law

the software that belong to a party who have the legal rights, are called copyrighted software. only those who have a license from the copyrighted party can use change or distribute this software. this software has a legal binding some of the companies of this type are microsoft, macromedia, adobe etc.

2009.

Yes

The five basic rights that copyright confers are...

The right to reproduce the work

The right to create derivatives

The right to distribute copes to the public

The right to perform the work publicly

The right to display the work publicly

note that these rights are not absolute, there are exceptions (most notably the "fair use" doctrine)

September 2010

You have to contact the celebrity via their agent in order to obtain their permission. You will have to have some way to pay the celebrity - most writers agree to split the proceeds from the book's sales with the celebrity.

In the EU, currently, the sound recordings of "Love Me Do" and "PS I Love You" are in the public domain. The rest from 1963-1970 onward, won't enter until 70 years after release (2033-2040). No Beatles recordings will enter into the US until 95 years after release (2057-2065). That's just for the recordings, though. The songs themselves, however, retain copyright until 70 years after the writers death. So George's songs will be pd in 2071. Lennon-McCartney songs won't expire until 70 years after Paul dies (same for Ringo's 2 songs). Fo it depends on whether you're talking about the songs themselves or the Beatles recordings of them.

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Some may be in public domain. This means the copyrights either expired or were not renewed. "It's a Wonderful Life" (1946) was in public domain for years but the music copyright was reestablished and now only NBC has rights to air it.

Yes, unless you have permission from the copyright holder of the original, or an exemption in the law. For example, if you are copying a work in order to learn a technique, that use should be defensible as fair.

Most "traditional" or "folk" music is of sufficient age (pre 1923) to be in the public domain. Bear in mind however, that if the works are without copyright restriction, revisions to lyrics and music can be done at anytime and those are protected. Additionally while the music and lyrics may be unencumbered individual performances may not be.

Virtually all recordings are protected by copyright, and all contemporary music. Older works (prior to 1923 in the US) may not be protected, but arrangements, adaptations, performances, and recordings of it would be.

Because protection is automatic, it's safe to assume that anything since 1978 is protected unless specified otherwise. In the US, works prior to 1923 are in the public domain. Works 1923-1978 can be frustrating, because often it depends on whether it was renewed, and verifying renewal may require ordering a search of the paper records, which can be expensive.

I believe mti will eventually hold the rights but they haven't been released for amateur performance yet.

First of all, here's a tip. To save money, make a whole bookful of cartoon characters. That way, you'll have copyright access at a lower price than spending hundreds and maybe thousands of dollars on one character at a time. Be sure to copyright the script also. Copyrighting your creations should cost anywhere between $30-$100 more or less. Anders- P.S. By the way my penname is copyrighted.

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Copyrighting music is done in the same way regardless of the city in which you live. You must copyright through the United States Copyright Office. The copyright form for musical works can be found on the U.S. Copyright Office website.

In music, composition is creating a new musical work, generally by recording it in music notation. People who practice composition are called composers. Compositional techniques are the methods used to create music. Useful skills in composition include writing musical notation, instrumentation, and handling musical ensembles (orchestration). Other skills include extended techniques such as improvisation, musical montage, preparing instruments, using non-traditional instruments, and other methods of sound production.

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That is hotly debated. Although it was written in 1940 and recorded in 1944, The Richmond Organization registered a copyright in 1956 which they have consistently renewed. See the Library Law Blog entry linked below for a thorough discussion.

It depends what country you're in. It's in the public domain in countries where the term of copyright protection is the life of the composer plus 50 years, including in Mexico where the 2003 extension to life plus 100 was non-retroactive. In life plus 70 years countries, including the United States, it will be protected through 2028.

If you are watching movies online that are still in theaters or are not out on DVD, you're receiving stolen goods. Go to the motion picture association of America website to get a list of legal movie sites.

That particular law uses the term "adaptation" rather than "derivative," and defines it as converting a book or artwork into a play or screenplay, or vice versa; an abridgement; a musical arrangement or transcription; or "in relation to any work, any use of such work involving its re-arrangement or alteration."

Copyright includes the exclusive right to "make any adaptation of the work," and gives the rightsholder copyright (and its associated rights) over the resulting adaptation.

Yes, of course. However, it is all about how you distribute, by any means, the copied work.

To put it simply, you become a thief when you represent copied material as your own, sell it without authorization as a copy or otherwise diminish the value of the original work.

This is a complex legal area, but if you copy a Manet for your own pleasure I doubt that the art police will come knocking at your door. However, if you get very good at it, some would become very interested in your work, legally.

Copy away, but don't misrepresent it or sell it without permission.

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First of all, the question is begging to be asked: Would you want it done to you? As a muralist, I can tell you that it is not okay to recreate another's work without the expressed permission of the living or deceased artist and his chain of command. AND the art police do exist. A colleage of mine painted Disney characters in the church basement of a pre-school center. The organization caught wind of it and marched him down to prime the work out, all this after he received legal threats from them. Come to find out one of the kid's parents worked for a sub-contracted organization of Disney and innocently, happened to talk about how great it looked to her fellow workers. Don't fool yourselves. If you want to copy a work as a practice method, go for it. Do not let it outside your studio, claim it as your own or sign it.

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Yes and no. It is okay to copy anothers' work for purely instructional purpose (with you identifying the artist whom you copied). Other than that, copying is only okay with written permission from the artist. This also goes for characters, etc of the artist's creation. Fan art must be accompanied with whom the character is copyrighted to.

Ripped art has become even more serious of late with scanners and the like. They will hunt you down if you illegally copy anothers' work. (By the way, any art posted on the internet is legally copyrighted by the artist. Further details are available at DeviantArt.com's FAQ section.) Even a mural painted for free by a teacher at my elementary school of a few childrens' book characters had to be painted over. Be careful. Copyrights matter.

Advice to any artist: Mark on any website that your art is not to be copied. Digitally watermark anything. Be sure to know you have proof your work is yours. There are many helpful articles in the DA forumn. Join groups against ripped art. Don't rip art yourself.

Most songs that are originally written by an artist are copyrighted. Which means for another person/artist to record and reproduce the same song they have to buy the rights to it. However, that doesn't include performing the song live, as many artists choose to perform covers of different songs during concerts.