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	US Copyright Law by IPWatchdog, Inc.
		Copyright protection subsists only in original works of authorship if and only if the work is also fixed in a tangible medium of expression from which they can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated, either directly or with the aid of a machine or device.
		Copyright protection, however, does not and cannot exist for an idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery, regardless of the form in which it is described or embodied.
		Ideas are not protected by copyright law because protecting an idea would take the idea out of the public domain and would prevent others from using the idea to create their own independent and original works of authorship.
	www.ipwatchdog.com /copyright.html (792 words)

	Copyright Office Basics
		Copyright is a form of protection provided by the laws of the United States (title 17, U. Code) to the authors of “original works of authorship,” including literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, and certain other intellectual works.
		Copyright in each separate contribution to a periodical or other collective work is distinct from copyright in the collective work as a whole and vests initially with the author of the contribution.
		Copyright is a personal property right, and it is subject to the various state laws and regulations that govern the ownership, inheritance, or transfer of personal property as well as terms of contracts or conduct of business.
	www.loc.gov /copyright/circs/circ1.html (7023 words)

	U.S. Copyright Office - 128-Bit Browsers
		The “WIPO Copyright Treaty” is the WIPO Copyright Treaty concluded at Geneva, Switzerland, on December 20, 1996.
		Copyright protection under this title is not available for any work of the United States Government, but the United States Government is not precluded from receiving and holding copyrights transferred to it by assignment, bequest, or otherwise.
		If the copyright owner fails to do so in a timely manner in light of the transmitting organization's reasonable business requirements, the transmitting organization shall not be liable for a violation of section 1201(a)(1) of this title for engaging in such activities as are necessary to make such phonorecords as permitted under this subsection.
	www.loc.gov /copyright/title17/92chap1.html (10987 words)

	Copyright - Wex (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The U.S. Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. §§; 101 - 810, is Federal legislation enacted by Congress under its Constitutional grant of authority to protect the writings ofauthors.
		Given the scope of the Federal legislation and its provision precluding inconsistent state law, the field is almost exclusively a Federal one.
		Under current law, works are covered whether or not a copyright notice is attached and whether or not the work is registered.
	www.law.cornell.edu /topics/copyright.html (385 words)

	The United States Copyright Law: A Guide for Music Educators. Includes rights and limitations of copyright owners, ...
		The compromise represented by the Law is the result of numerous congressional hearings as well as studies conducted by the U.S. Copyright Office, in connection with which a substantial amount of testimony was heard and numerous comments were received from members of both groups.
		The most important group of limitations for music teachers is embodied in the section of the law that outlines the concept of “educational fair use.”; (The actual sections of the law that deal with library and archival copying and fair use are reproduced in their entirety in Appendix A of this document.
		Because the law places the onus of developing and implementing a copyright policy on the transmitting body or institute (the school system), this really only applies to teachers who work in schools that have developed the technical and legal structures to deal with this issue.
	www.menc.org /information/copyright/copyr.html (5614 words)

	United States Copyright Law
		The primary objective of copyright is not to reward the labor of authors, but '[t]o promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts.' To this end, copyright assures authors the right to their original expression, but encourages others to build freely upon the ideas and information conveyed by a work.
		Copyright notices are often inflated to read as if the copyright holder's right to copy is absolute, saying, for example, that no one may copy any portion of the book in any manner without the written permission of the publisher.
		Because copyright law ultimately serves the purpose of enriching the general public through access to creative works, it is peculiarly important that the boundaries of copyright law be demarcated as clearly as possible.
	www.painstudy.com /PainDrugs/p4.htm (16511 words)

	U.S. Copyright Office - Copyright Law of the United States
		Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004 Section 306 amends section 121 of the Copyright Law.
		Copyright Royalty and Distribution Reform Act of 2004 (P.L. signed Nov. 30, 2004 (html) (
		Appendix I: Transitional and Supplementary Provisions of the Copyright Act
	www.copyright.gov /title17 (203 words)

	Copyright Law Information & Articles
		Copyright is a form of protection provided by the laws of the United States to the authors of “original works of authorship,” including literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, and certain other intellectual works.
		Copyright myths travel at light speed and replicate their plausible, but flawed logic at the touch of a computer key.
		One of the rights accorded to the owner of copyright is the right to reproduce or to authorize others to reproduce the work in copies or phonorecords.
	www.keytlaw.com /Copyrights/copyrightlaw.htm (459 words)

	US Copyright Law
		The law states that "reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright."
		The purpose of a copyright policy is to state the institution's intention to abide by the law.
		If the court finds the infringer was not aware and had no reason to believe that his or her acts constituted an infringement of copyright, the court may reduce the award to not less than $200.
	ndsl.lib.state.nd.us /Publications/uscopyrightlaw.html (1821 words)

	Structural continuity and transformations of the United States copyright law with regard to computer programs: Actors' ...
		This study analyzes the 115 U.S. federal cases regarding the copyright protection of computer programs, in order to examine how legal actors with different resources interact through their strategic communication activities, which influence the structuring of the information environment of the copyright system.
		When the cases began to have more actors who are developers but not copyright holders and the actors who are not developers but claim their rights in the programs, the struggle between the developers and non-developers were manifested in their arguments focusing on the concept of work and that of authorship.
		The findings of this study demonstrate the importance of the role of communication in structuration, because the only way that the legal actors were able to legitimize their interests and possibly transform the existing structural rules was through their communicative activities.
	repository.upenn.edu /dissertations/AAI9615146 (482 words)

	Compliance with the 1976 US Copyright Law
		They are to present copyright policies to staff members periodically as a reminder of their rights and responsibilities under the law.
		This means that works should be considered copyrighted if they are fixed in a tangible medium even if no copyright notice is included unless you know for sure that they are in the public domain, i.e., they are no longer under copyright protection or never have been copyrighted.
		Videocassettes of copyrighted materials, even though labeled "for home use only," may be used for classroom teaching purposes pursuant to Section 110(1) of the copyright law.
	www.lausd.k12.ca.us /homepage/news/update/copyright (3425 words)

	United States Patent and Trademark Office Home Page
		The United States Patent and Trademark Office is sponsoring a two-day, free program on "China's Impact on Intellectual Property: Protecting Your Intellectual Property in China and the Global Marketplace ", to be held on Wednesday and Thursday, September 27-28, 2006 at the Omni Parker House hotel in Boston, Massachusetts.
		United States Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property Jon Dudas on Tuesday warned members of Minnesota's small business community that they are at risk of overseas intellectual property theft -- even if they do not export.
		In remarks before the “Conference on Intellectual Property in the Global Marketplace,” sponsored by the Commerce Department's United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), Dudas emphasized the importance to businesses of obtaining intellectual property protection both in the United States and overseas.
	www.uspto.gov (298 words)

	Waunakee Middle School - Copyright and Plagiarism
		Copyright is a type of law that exists to protect intellectual property.
		The bare minimum requirements for copyright law to apply are that the work must be original, have exhibited some minimal level of creativity, and be in a fixed form of expression.
		Students can include copyrighted images, sounds, and videos in projects they create for school, as long as it's not too much of the work, and as long as there are only a limited number of copies of the final project available.
	www.waunakee.k12.wi.us /midlschl/msb/copyright.htm (2094 words)

	US (United States) Copyright Law FAQs - (WorldWideOCR.com)
		To determine the length of copyright protection for a particular work, consult chapter 3 of the Copyright Act (title 17 of the United States Code).
		The Copyright Office general policy is to retain published, registered copyright deposits for at least 5 years with the exception of deposits of published works registered in Class VA (visual arts).
		The United States has copyright relations with most countries throughout the world, and as a result of these agreements, we honor each other's citizens' copyrights.
	www.worldwideocr.com /US_Copyright_Law_FAQ.asp (1195 words)

	Copyright Law in the United States (BitLaw)
		Copyright law in the U.S. is governed by federal statute, namely the Copyright Act of 1976.
		Copyrights can be registered in the Copyright Office in the Library of Congress, but newly created works do not need to be registered.
		In fact, it is no longer necessary to even place a copyright notice on a work for it to be protected by copyright law.
	www.bitlaw.com /copyright/index.html (205 words)

	17 USC 101, Definitions (BitLaw)
		A "Copyright Royalty Judge" is a Copyright Royalty Judge appointed under section 802 of this title [17 USC 802], and includes any individual serving as an interim Copyright Royalty Judge under such section.
		(B) simultaneously in the United States and another treaty party or parties, whose law grants a term of copyright protection that is the same as or longer than the term provided in the United States;
		in the case of an unpublished work, all the authors of the work are nationals, domiciliaries, or habitual residents of the United States, or, in the case of an unpublished audiovisual work, all the authors are legal entities with headquarters in the United States; or
	www.bitlaw.com /source/17usc/101.html (2150 words)

	THE UT SYSTEM CRASH COURSE IN COPYRIGHT
		Copyright in the digital library: Welcome to the center of the digital revolution.
		Copyright management: Nobody knows what this is about.
		The Crash Course Tutorial is available for faculty to use to learn Copyright basics, especially in the distance learning context.
	www.utsystem.edu /OGC/IntellectualProperty/cprtindx.htm (151 words)

	The Copyright Law of the United States - Free Searchable Version (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Search and analyze the full text of the Copyright Law of the United States of America & related laws contained in Title 17 of the United States Code.
		You can download, search and analyze the US Copyright Law eBook on your computer using the free askSam Viewer or the askSam free-form database (Windows PCs only).
		To display the copyrighted work publicly, in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and pictorial, graphic, or sculptural works, including the individual images of a motion picture or other audiovisual work; and
	www.asksam.com /ebooks/Copyright (488 words)

	Find in a Library: The United States copyright law : a guide for music educators
		The United States copyright law : a guide for music educators
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	www.worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/2cc9226aaee4711a.html (81 words)

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