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Why is it possible to sue non-original distributers of Pirated items?
Copyright law is not based on contracts, and does not require agreement. No one may distribute copies of a copyrighted work without permission from the copyright holder. … of the copyright or right of the author, as the case may be. …
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How do you request for a TV show to be made available again?
Such a rule would defeat the purpose of copyright law, which is to give the copyright holder control over the use of the work, not take away their ability to do so. … But someone who does not own the copyright or any related rights cannot use copyright law to force the person who does own the copyright to spend their own money to convert a show into a new format. …
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Distribution Category UC42 Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited?
The "distribution statement" on US government documents has to do with sensitive information, not copyright. … Any work produced by an officer or employee of the United States Government as part of their official duties is not protected under US copyright law. …
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Who owns a copyright on a scanned work?
In the US, the original author still owns the copyright, unless the original work was out of copyright (in which case no one owns the copyright): copyright is not granted for just pressing a "scan" button … , and mechanical reproductions are not eligible for copyright (copyright protects creativity, and a scan involves zero creativity). …
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Do digital works need to be sent to the copyright office?
First, you don't have to send anything to the copyright office; registration is only required before you actually file an infringement lawsuit. … Second, when you do register, the Copyright Office says:
What works may be registered with electronic deposits? …
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Will software ever enter the public domain?
Currently, most works are copyrighted for the life of the author plus 70 years; publication date doesn't affect the copyright term. …
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How can a database derived from copyrighted works be public domain?
Just because a work is copyrighted, doesn't mean every part of that work is copyrighted, and factual information conveyed by the work is a part which is not subject to copyright. … Copyright on a collection of facts is limited to the selection and arrangement of those facts, and only if that selection and arrangement has some bare minimum amount of originality. See Feist v. …
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Are the people who sell pre-owned copyrighted media on sites such as Amazon breaking a law?
Copyright does not give the copyright holder exclusive rights to authorize resales. … However, as a general rule resale is specifically not forbidden by copyright. …
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Legally Using NASA Material
It is true that any work of the US government is not subject to copyright in the United States; it may be subject to copyright abroad (the relevant law excludes US government works from US copyright protection … If a foreign cosmonaut or astronaut composes and sings an original song in a livestream, then NASA may not have copyright in the livestream but the foreign astronaut would have copyright in the song. …
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Can I use my own Stack Exchange answer in a book?
The terms of service do not give Stack Exchange the copyright to your contributions, and a non-exclusive license means you are not promising Stack Exchange that “only Stack Exchange will be allowed to …
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Does musical satire really require permission from the copyright holder?
The only way to definitively know if something is fair use or not is if you’re actually sued for copyright infringement and convince a court that it was fair use. …
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If a U.S. jurisdiction secedes, can they still keep the old laws?
Under United States copyright law, according to the Copyright Office,
206.01 Edicts of government. … They would get to decide if it was legal for them to do it or not; this is just like how it works between the UK and US (the UK claims copyright on its laws, but US courts will not enforce that copyright …
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Public domain status of works by the state of Texas
State government works in the US are not uncopyrightable in the US in general; the copyright law just doesn't protect federal works. …
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Is the output of a generator tool copyrighted? [GPL3 and CC BY-SA 3.0]
That means that the output contains a substantial amount of content made by the program creator, which means that it would likely be covered by the program creator's copyright. … Copyright holders can, if they want, grant additional permissions to their content and allow you to incorporate that content into nonfree software. …
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What protections does Common Law copyright give me?
All copyright is based on federal copyright statutes, and an unregistered copyright is just called an unregistered copyright. … What an unregistered copyright gives you is almost the same thing as a registered copyright: the exclusive right to exercise various rights (reproduction, distribution, public performance/display, etc. …
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