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Team Assignments

Krasilovsky & Shemel, Chapter 10: "Copyright Law in the United States"
 
Team 1.  How does copyright protect “intangible property”?  What are some examples of how technology has changed the ways in which we think about copyright?
Team 2.  Describe things that can and cannot be copyrighted?  What is “common law copyright?
Team 3.  What is “statutory copyright” and why is ZZ Top relevant to this discussion?
Team 1.  What must one do to copyright original music (compositions or recordings)?
Team 2.  How did the Internet affect registration?
Team 3.  What is a “derivative work”?
Team 1.  What is eCO?  How is this different from other forms of registration?
Team 2.  For copyrights originating in and after 1978, how is the duration of the copyright measured? 
Team 3.  What is the purpose of including a copyright notice on a work?
Team 1.  Where would one deposit a copyrightable work and why would one deposit it?
Team 2.  Is ignorance of the copyright law (e.g., transfer of copyright) sufficient to be exempt from its restrictions?
Team 3.  What is an “error in copyright notice”?  Explain.
Team 1.  What is “fair use”?  What are examples of fair use?
Team 2.  Why would Robert Stigwood sue a group of Catholic priests?
Team 3.  What is and is not a parody?  Is it covered under “fair use”?
Team 1.  Why was Disney allowed to use the title, The Love Bug for a film?
Team 2.  What is a “mechanical license”?
Team 3.  What does it mean to “synchronize nondramatic musical works” with a program?
   
27 January, 2013