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Copyright law of the United States

Index Copyright law of the United States

The copyright law of the United States is intended to encourage the creation of art and culture by rewarding authors and artists with a set of exclusive rights. [1]

101 relations: Animal-made art, Ashcan copy, Authors Guild, Inc. v. HathiTrust, Baker v. Selden, Berne Convention, Bilateral copyright agreements of the United States, Braille, Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp., Bright-line rule, Broderbund Software Inc. v. Unison World, Inc., Burrow-Giles Lithographic Co. v. Sarony, Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc., Carl Malamud, Castle Rock Entertainment, Inc. v. Carol Publishing Group Inc., CBS Radio, Certiorari, Collective work (US), Common law, Computer Associates International, Inc. v. Altai, Inc., Copyfraud, Copyright, Copyright Act of 1790, Copyright Act of 1976, Copyright Catalog, Copyright Clause, Copyright Clearance Center, Copyright infringement, Copyright misuse, Copyright registration, Copyright Renewal Act of 1992, Copyright renewal in the United States, Copyright Term Extension Act, Copyright transfer agreement, Cornell University, Crime, Damages, Derivative work, Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Eltra Corp. v. Ringer, Fair use, Fair Use Project, Feist Publications, Inc., v. Rural Telephone Service Co., Fine (penalty), First-sale doctrine, HathiTrust, Idea–expression divide, Intellectual property, International Copyright Act, Joint authorship, Learned Hand, ..., McDonald's, Midway Manufacturing Co. v. Artic International, Inc., Mutual exclusivity, National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, No Electronic Theft Act, Nonprofit organization, Official Code of Georgia Annotated, Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act, Orphan work, Parody, Percy Anderson (judge), Plaintiff, Prima facie, Prison, Public broadcasting, Public domain, Public Domain Enhancement Act, Public.Resource.Org, Romeo and Juliet, Roth Greeting Cards v. United Card Co., School, SCOTUSblog, Seal of the President of the United States, Sid & Marty Krofft Television Productions Inc. v. McDonald's Corp., Sound recording and reproduction, Star Athletica, LLC v. Varsity Brands, Inc., Statute of Anne, Statutory damages for copyright infringement, Subject-matter jurisdiction, Substantial similarity, Suntrust Bank v. Houghton Mifflin Co., Supreme Court of the United States, Sweat of the brow, TEACH Act, The Christian Science Monitor, Title 17 of the United States Code, Title 28 of the United States Code, Tort, United States Congress, United States Constitution, United States copyright law in the performing arts, United States Copyright Office, United States Court of Federal Claims, United States patent law, United States trademark law, Uruguay Round Agreements Act, Visual Artists Rights Act, West Side Story, Whelan v. Jaslow, White-Smith Music Publishing Co. v. Apollo Co., Work for hire. Expand index (51 more) »

Animal-made art

Animal-made art is art created by a non-human animal.

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Ashcan copy

An Ashcan copy is a type of American comic book publication.

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Authors Guild, Inc. v. HathiTrust

Authors Guild v. HathiTrust, 755 F.3d 87 (2d Cir. 2014), is a United States copyright decision finding search and accessibility uses of digitized books to be fair use.

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Baker v. Selden

Baker v. Selden,,. was a leading Supreme Court of the United States copyright case cited to explain the idea-expression dichotomy.

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Berne Convention

The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, usually known as the Berne Convention, is an international agreement governing copyright, which was first accepted in Berne, Switzerland, in 1886.

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Bilateral copyright agreements of the United States

Bilateral copyright agreements of the United States are agreements between the United States and another country which allow U.S. authors to claim copyright protection in the other country and authors from that country to claim protection under United States copyright law.

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Braille

Braille is a tactile writing system used by people who are visually impaired.

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Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp.

Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp., 36 F. Supp.

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Bright-line rule

A bright-line rule (or bright-line test) is a clearly defined rule or standard in the United States, composed of objective factors, which leaves little or no room for varying interpretation.

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Broderbund Software Inc. v. Unison World, Inc.

Broderbund Software Inc.

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Burrow-Giles Lithographic Co. v. Sarony

Burrow-Giles Lithographic Co.

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Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc.

Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc., was a United States Supreme Court copyright law case that established that a commercial parody can qualify as fair use.

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Carl Malamud

Carl Malamud (born 1959) is an American technologist, author, and public domain advocate, known for his foundation Public.Resource.Org.

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Castle Rock Entertainment, Inc. v. Carol Publishing Group Inc.

Castle Rock Entertainment Inc.

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CBS Radio

CBS Radio was a radio broadcasting company and radio network operator owned by CBS Corporation, and consolidated radio station groups owned by CBS and Westinghouse Broadcasting/Group W since the 1920s and Infinity Broadcasting since the 1970s.

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Certiorari

Certiorari, often abbreviated cert. in the United States, is a process for seeking judicial review and a writ issued by a court that agrees to review.

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Collective work (US)

A collective work in the Copyright law of the United States is a work that contains the works of several authors assembled and published into a collective whole.

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Common law

Common law (also known as judicial precedent or judge-made law, or case law) is that body of law derived from judicial decisions of courts and similar tribunals.

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Computer Associates International, Inc. v. Altai, Inc.

Computer Associates International, Inc.

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Copyfraud

Copyfraud refers to false copyright claims by individuals or institutions with respect to content that is in the public domain.

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Copyright

Copyright is a legal right, existing globally in many countries, that basically grants the creator of an original work exclusive rights to determine and decide whether, and under what conditions, this original work may be used by others.

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Copyright Act of 1790

The Copyright Act of 1790 was the first federal copyright act to be instituted in the United States, though most of the states had passed various legislation securing copyrights in the years immediately following the Revolutionary War.

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Copyright Act of 1976

The Copyright Act of 1976 is a United States copyright law and remains the primary basis of copyright law in the United States, as amended by several later enacted copyright provisions.

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Copyright Catalog

United States copyright registrations, renewals, and other catalog entries since 1978 are published online at the.

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Copyright Clause

The Copyright Clause (also known as the Intellectual Property Clause, Copyright and Patent Clause, or the Progress Clause) describes an enumerated power listed in the United States Constitution (Article I, Section 8, Clause 8).

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Copyright Clearance Center

Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) is a U.S. company based in Danvers, Massachusetts, (although it is incorporated in New York State), that provides collective copyright licensing services for corporate and academic users of copyrighted materials.

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Copyright infringement

Copyright infringement is the use of works protected by copyright law without permission, infringing certain exclusive rights granted to the copyright holder, such as the right to reproduce, distribute, display or perform the protected work, or to make derivative works.

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Copyright misuse

Copyright misuse is an equitable defense against copyright infringement in the United States allowing copyright infringers to avoid infringement liability if the copyright holder has engaged in abusive or improper conduct in exploiting or enforcing the copyright.

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Copyright registration

The purpose of copyright registration is to place on record a verifiable account of the date and content of the work in question, so that in the event of a legal claim, or case of infringement or plagiarism, the copyright owner can produce a copy of the work from an official government source.

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Copyright Renewal Act of 1992

Copyright Renewal Act of 1992,, is the first title of the Copyright Amendments Act of 1992, an act of the United States Congress that amended copyright renewal provisions of Title 17 of the United States Code enacted under Copyright Act of 1976.

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Copyright renewal in the United States

Copyright renewal is a process through which an initial term of copyright protection for a work can be extended for a second term.

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Copyright Term Extension Act

The Copyright Term Extension Act (CTEA) of 1998 extended copyright terms in the United States.

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Copyright transfer agreement

A copyright transfer agreement is a legal document containing provisions for the conveyance of full or partial copyright from the rights owner to another party.

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Cornell University

Cornell University is a private and statutory Ivy League research university located in Ithaca, New York.

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Crime

In ordinary language, a crime is an unlawful act punishable by a state or other authority.

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Damages

In law, damages are an award, typically of money, to be paid to a person as compensation for loss or injury.

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Derivative work

In copyright law, a derivative work is an expressive creation that includes major copyright-protected elements of an original, previously created first work (the underlying work).

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Digital Millennium Copyright Act

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is a United States copyright law that implements two 1996 treaties of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).

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Eltra Corp. v. Ringer

Eltra Corp.

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Fair use

Fair use is a doctrine in the law of the United States that permits limited use of copyrighted material without having to first acquire permission from the copyright holder.

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Fair Use Project

The Fair Use Project is part of the Stanford Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School.

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Feist Publications, Inc., v. Rural Telephone Service Co.

Feist Publications, Inc., v. Rural Telephone Service Co.,, was a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States establishing that information alone without a minimum of original creativity cannot be protected by copyright.

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Fine (penalty)

A fine or mulct is money that a court of law or other authority decides has to be paid as punishment for a crime or other offence.

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First-sale doctrine

The first-sale doctrine is a legal concept playing an important role in U.S. copyright and trademark law by limiting certain rights of a copyright or trademark owner.

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HathiTrust

HathiTrust is a large-scale collaborative repository of digital content from research libraries including content digitized via the Google Books project and Internet Archive digitization initiatives, as well as content digitized locally by libraries.

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Idea–expression divide

The idea–expression divide or idea–expression dichotomy limits the scope of copyright protection by differentiating an idea from the expression or manifestation of that idea.

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Intellectual property

Intellectual property (IP) is a category of property that includes intangible creations of the human intellect, and primarily encompasses copyrights, patents, and trademarks.

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International Copyright Act

International Copyright Act is a stock short title used for legislation in the United Kingdom and the United States which relates to foreign copyright.

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Joint authorship

Joint authorship of a copyrightable work is when two or more persons contribute enough to the work to be the author of that work.

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Learned Hand

Billings Learned Hand (January 27, 1872 – August 18, 1961) was an American judge and judicial philosopher.

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McDonald's

McDonald's is an American fast food company, founded in 1940 as a restaurant operated by Richard and Maurice McDonald, in San Bernardino, California, United States.

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Midway Manufacturing Co. v. Artic International, Inc.

Midway Manufacturing Co.

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Mutual exclusivity

In logic and probability theory, two events (or propositions) are mutually exclusive or disjoint if they cannot both occur (be true).

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National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped

The National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) is a free library program of braille and audio materials circulated to eligible borrowers in the United States by postage-free mail.

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No Electronic Theft Act

The United States No Electronic Theft Act (NET Act), a federal law passed in 1997, provides for criminal prosecution of individuals who engage in copyright infringement under certain circumstances, even when there is no monetary profit or commercial benefit from the infringement.

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Nonprofit organization

A non-profit organization (NPO), also known as a non-business entity or non-profit institution, is dedicated to furthering a particular social cause or advocating for a shared point of view.

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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

The Official Code of Georgia Annotated or OCGA is the compendium of all laws in the U.S. state of Georgia.

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Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act

The Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act (OCILLA) is United States federal law that creates a conditional safe harbor for online service providers (OSP) (a group which includes internet service providers (ISP)) and other Internet intermediaries by shielding them for their own acts of direct copyright infringement (when they make unauthorized copies) as well as shielding them from potential secondary liability for the infringing acts of others.

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Orphan work

An orphan work is a copyright protected work for which rightsholders are positively indeterminate or uncontactable.

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Parody

A parody (also called a spoof, send-up, take-off, lampoon, play on something, caricature, or joke) is a work created to imitate, make fun of, or comment on an original work—its subject, author, style, or some other target—by means of satiric or ironic imitation.

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Percy Anderson (judge)

Percy Anderson (born July 31, 1948) is a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California.

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Plaintiff

A plaintiff (Π in legal shorthand) is the party who initiates a lawsuit (also known as an action) before a court.

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Prima facie

Prima facie is a Latin expression meaning on its first encounter or at first sight.

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Prison

A prison, also known as a correctional facility, jail, gaol (dated, British English), penitentiary (American English), detention center (American English), or remand center is a facility in which inmates are forcibly confined and denied a variety of freedoms under the authority of the state.

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Public broadcasting

Public broadcasting includes radio, television and other electronic media outlets whose primary mission is public service.

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Public domain

The public domain consists of all the creative works to which no exclusive intellectual property rights apply.

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Public Domain Enhancement Act

The Public Domain Enhancement Act (PDEA) ((108th Congress), (109th Congress)) was a bill in the United States Congress which, if passed, would have added a tax for copyrighted works to retain their copyright status.

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Public.Resource.Org

Public.Resource.Org is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation dedicated to publishing and sharing public domain materials in the United States and internationally.

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Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families.

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Roth Greeting Cards v. United Card Co.

Roth Greeting Cards v. United Card Co., 429 F.2d 1106 (9th Cir. 1970), was a Ninth Circuit case involving the copyright of greeting cards that introduced the "total concept and feel" standard for determining substantial similarity.

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School

A school is an institution designed to provide learning spaces and learning environments for the teaching of students (or "pupils") under the direction of teachers.

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SCOTUSblog

SCOTUSblog is a law blog written by lawyers, law professors, and law students about the Supreme Court of the United States (sometimes abbreviated "SCOTUS").

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Seal of the President of the United States

The Seal of the President of the United States is used to mark correspondence from the U.S. president to the U.S. Congress, and is also used as a symbol of the presidency itself.

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Sid & Marty Krofft Television Productions Inc. v. McDonald's Corp.

Sid & Marty Krofft Television Productions Inc.

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Sound recording and reproduction

Sound recording and reproduction is an electrical, mechanical, electronic, or digital inscription and re-creation of sound waves, such as spoken voice, singing, instrumental music, or sound effects.

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Star Athletica, LLC v. Varsity Brands, Inc.

Star Athletica, L. L. C. v. Varsity Brands, Inc., 580 U.S. ___ (2017), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States interpreted the Copyright Act of 1976—specifically the portion codified at 17 U.S.C. § 101—to determine when a "pictorial, graphic, or sculptural feature" incorporated into a useful article is eligible for copyright protection.

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Statute of Anne

The Statute of Anne, also known as the Copyright Act 1710 (cited either as 8 Ann. c. 21 or as 8 Ann. c. 19), is an act of the Parliament of Great Britain passed in 1710, which was the first statute to provide for copyright regulated by the government and courts, rather than by private parties.

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Statutory damages for copyright infringement

Statutory damages for copyright infringement are available under some countries' copyright laws.

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Subject-matter jurisdiction

Subject-matter jurisdiction is the authority of a court to hear cases of a particular type or cases relating to a specific subject matter.

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Substantial similarity

Substantial similarity, in US copyright law, is the standard used to determine whether a defendant has infringed the reproduction right of a copyright.

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Suntrust Bank v. Houghton Mifflin Co.

Suntrust v. Houghton Mifflin Co., 268 F.3d 1257 (11th Cir. 2001),, was a case decided by the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit against the owner of Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind, vacating an injunction prohibiting the publisher of Alice Randall's The Wind Done Gone from distributing the book.

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Supreme Court of the United States

The Supreme Court of the United States (sometimes colloquially referred to by the acronym SCOTUS) is the highest federal court of the United States.

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Sweat of the brow

Sweat of the brow is an intellectual property law doctrine, chiefly related to copyright law.

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TEACH Act

The Technology, Education and Copyright Harmonization Act of 2002 (part of Public Law 107-273), known as the TEACH Act, is a section of an Act of the United States Congress.

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The Christian Science Monitor

The Christian Science Monitor (CSM) is a nonprofit news organization that publishes daily articles in electronic format as well as a weekly print edition.

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Title 17 of the United States Code

Title 17 of the United States Code is the United States Code that outlines United States copyright law.

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Title 28 of the United States Code

Title 28 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) is the portion of the United States Code (federal statutory law) that governs the federal judicial system.

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Tort

A tort, in common law jurisdictions, is a civil wrong that causes a claimant to suffer loss or harm resulting in legal liability for the person who commits the tortious act.

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United States Congress

The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the Federal government of the United States.

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United States Constitution

The United States Constitution is the supreme law of the United States.

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United States copyright law in the performing arts

As with any other idea, the idea for a performing arts production is copyrighted as soon as it is created.

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United States Copyright Office

The United States Copyright Office, a part of the Library of Congress, is the official U.S. government body that maintains records of copyright registration in the United States, including a Copyright Catalog.

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United States Court of Federal Claims

The United States Court of Federal Claims (in case citations, Fed. Cl. or C.F.C.) is a United States federal court that hears monetary claims against the U.S. government.

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United States patent law

Under United States law, a patent is a right granted to the inventor of a (1) process, machine, article of manufacture, or composition of matter, (2) that is new, useful, and non-obvious.

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United States trademark law

A trademark is a word, phrase, or logo that identifies the source of goods or services.

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Uruguay Round Agreements Act

The Uruguay Round Agreements Act (URAA) is an Act of Congress in the United States that implemented in U.S. law the Marrakesh Agreement of 1994.

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Visual Artists Rights Act

The Visual Artists Rights Act of 1990 (VARA),, is a United States law granting certain rights to artists.

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West Side Story

West Side Story is a musical with a book by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.

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Whelan v. Jaslow

Whelan Assocs., Inc.

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White-Smith Music Publishing Co. v. Apollo Co.

White-Smith Music Publishing Company v. Apollo Company,, was a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States which ruled that manufacturers of music rolls for player pianos did not have to pay royalties to the composers.

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Work for hire

In the copyright law of the United States, a work made for hire (work for hire or WFH) is a work subject to copyright that is created by an employee as part of their job, or some limited types of works for which all parties agree in writing to the WFH designation.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_the_United_States

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