Copyright Law

Using the right side numeric keyboard with NUM LOCK on . Hold down the ALT key and type in 0169 . ie © ©

Intellectual property refers to creative endeavors to which exclusive rights can be applied. Copyright, trademark, patent, and trade secrets are the major types of intellectual property.

Traditionally, the copyright holder will write an agreement spelling out the terms, to be signed by both parties.

Increasingly, skilled amateur artists and photographers are making works available with a Creative Commons license--essentially an agreement spelling out the terms, just as a traditional license, but not requiring signatures. With this, the artist can allow the work to be distributed and used, without being bogged down with paperwork every single time someone decides they like it.

Copyright law protects authors, and patent law protects inventors.

Abilene Music, Quartet Music, and Range Road Music control the song itself; various performances and recordings have their own protection.

Copyright law has existed in some form since 1709. The current laws protect a work of sufficient creativity as soon as it is fixed in a tangible medium.

A copyright holder (regardless of whether it is for music, books, software, etc.) must protect their own rights though vigilance and if necessary filing lawsuits against violators. It is possible to hire legal firms that will perform these for you and publishing companies typically have an internal legal department for this purpose. All of this of course costs money and raises the cost of these products (even if no violations occur).

For criminal copyright violations prosecutions are controlled by the respective district US Attorney General.

In civil cases prosecution is conducted by the attorney employed by the Plaintiff in the case.

If you register a copyright, that means you've created something and want to protect your rights to it. You can then license others to use that work. So copyright registration is saying "this is mine," and copyright licensing is saying "but you can use it."

Once your work is fixed (written down, recorded, etc.) it is automatically protected by copyright.

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The basis for US copyright law was established in the Constitution. For this reason Article 1 section 8 clause 8 is known as the "copyright clause".

"To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."

It was proposed on August 18th, 1787 and ratified for inclusion to the Constitution on September 17th, 1787

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Because counterfeiting is a federal crime, the statute of limitations does not vary by state. The statute of limitations for counterfeiting is 5 years. However if terrorism is involved it is 8 years.

Unless specified otherwise, yes.

Only copy, alter, distribute, or perform/display works that are entirely your own original work, are in the public domain, or for which you have permission from the copyright holder or an exemption in the law.

For a summary of the potential benefits look under the heading "Copyright Registration" about halfway through Circular 1, "Copyright Basics," published by the United States Copyright Office: http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.html#cr . One major benefit (mentioned in Circular 1): If the copyright owner registers the work within certain time frames, a court can order the infringer to pay the owner's attorney's fees.

You may only copy, alter, distribute, or perform/display works that are entirely your own original work, which are in the public domain, or for which you have an exemption in the law or permission from the copyright holder.

The doctrine of fair use supersedes an author's copyright protection. The limitations are set forth in Justice Story's opinion in Folsom v. Marsh, a copyright case from 1841. 'In short, we must often ... look to the nature and objects of the selections made, the quantity and value of the materials used, and the degree in which the use may prejudice the sale, or diminish the profits, or supersede the objects, of the original work.'

Not necessarily, under the laws of more than 160 countries, no registration (or other legal formalities) are required to obtain copyright protection. Once the creative work of expression is recorded in a tangible form, it is automatically protected and can be licensed, transferred, and in many cases enforced in court. In some countries, such as the USA, a copyright owner must register the copyright in order to sue in federal court, as copyright registration is required as administrative proof of ownership.

As an incentive to early registration, the US law also offers registrants "statutory damages" of up to $150,000 for infringement of a registered work, regardless of any actual market damage to the author or profits of the infringer.

It is also no longer a requirement (as it was prior to 1963) to publish works with a proper copyright NOTICE in order to obtain copyright protection. Again, the law offers certain incentives to those who choose to use the copyright notice on their works. It is also a federal crime to modify or remove an existing copyright notice with intent to defraud.

copyright law was introduced around the time photocopiers were invented because people were photocopying other peoples work and saying it was there own. the copyright law was to stop people and protect the original artists.

--Apple felt Microsoft had copied the 'look and feel' of their GUI

--Judge ruled that much of Apple's GUI was still in 'ideas' stage whereas Microsoft had produced a working GUI

l1994 -- Apple lost the case

The specific wording varies from country to country, but in general the work must have some amound of originality and creativity, and it must be fixed in a tangible medium. Fixing doesn't necessarily requre a material form, though: digital works are also considered to be fixed.

It depends on what you mean by "the news". Anyone can cover a news story because the information is not copyrighted. However, a news article is a published work and may be copyrighted. (That is, unless the author explicitly releases it into the public domain.)

Analyzing images and text

Usually copyright infringement in the US is handled between the aggrieved parties, as a civil matter. In the rare criminal prosecutions enforcement is handled by the Department of Justice (in the form of the FBI). Litigation is prosecuted through at regional US Attorney Generals' Office.