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The copyright law of the United States grants monopoly protection for "original works of authorship". [ 1][ 2] With the stated purpose to promote art and culture, copyright law assigns a set of exclusive rights to authors: to make and sell copies of their works, to create derivative works, and to perform or display their works publicly.
The first step of the infringement analysis, copying-in-fact, includes determining that the defendant actually copied the work as a factual matter. [53] Because direct evidence of copying is rare, courts tend to permit evidence showing that (1) the defendant had access to the copyrighted work and so had the opportunity to copy the work and (2) a sufficient degree of similarity exists between ...
Freedom of information – opposition to copyright law in general; Sometimes only partial compliance with license agreements is the cause. For example, in 2013, the US Army settled a lawsuit with Texas-based company Apptricity which makes software that allows the army to track their soldiers in real time. In 2004, the US Army paid the company a ...
The Visual Artists Rights Act of 1990 ( VARA ), ( Pub. L. 101–650 title VI, 17 U.S.C. § 106A ), is a United States law granting certain rights to artists. VARA was the first federal copyright legislation to grant protection to moral rights. Under VARA, works of art that meet certain requirements afford their authors additional rights in the ...
Literary works distributed in e-book format when all existing e-book editions of the work (including digital text editions made available by authorized entities) contain access controls that prevent the enabling either of the book's read-aloud function or of screen readers that render the text into a specialized format. (A renewed exemption ...
Category. : Fair use images of book covers. This category is located at Category:Non-free images of book covers. Note: This category should be empty. There are no pages or files in this category. This list may not reflect recent changes ( ).
Book challenges in California A majority of Californians, around 69%, are against efforts to ban books from school boards, a study from the Public Policy Institute of California found.
A critical case to the application of copyright in compilation in U.S. law is Feist Publications, Inc. v. Rural Telephone Service Co., 499 U.S. 340 (1991), in which the Supreme Court clarified the role of creativity in protection.