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Copyright Act of 1970
- Applied to books, maps and charts
- Term:14 years
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Copyright Act of 1976
- Applied to literary works, musical works, drama, sound recordings, motion pictures.
- Term: 50 years
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Sonny Bono Copyright Term Ext Act of 1998
- Extended protection to life of author plus 70 yrs
- Added 20 yrs protection to existing works still protected by copyright
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Fair Use - Section 107 of Copyright Act
No infringement if: Criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, or research
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Section 117 of Copyright Act
Backup: 1 copy for archival
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Sony Betamax Case (1984)
Supreme held that "time-shifting" was non-infringing fair use
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Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music (1994)
"Pretty Women" - Considered Parody and non-infringing fair use. "Transformative character"
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Audio Home Recording Act of 1992 (AHRA)
- Music Industry lobbied against DATs
- Industry gets Serial Copy Management
- Consumer gets right to make analog or digital recordings for private use
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RIAA v. Diamond Multimedia (1999)
- Court upheld that the Rio MP3 player was consistent with AHRA
- Facilitated personal use
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A&M Records v. Napster (2001)
- Enjoined Napster from facilitating copyrighted works
- Fair use defense rejected - not "time-shifting" or "space-shifting"
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Digital Millenium Copyright Act of 1998
Criminal to circumvent anti-copy measures
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Patent Law - Article I, Section 8 of Constitution
- promote progress of science
- Useful arts
- securing for limited time to authors, inventors
- exclusive rights to their writing, discoveries
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Patent Protection
- Underlying idea
- Last 20 years
- Protects first to file (3/16/13)
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Novelty - Can't get Patent if:
- Inventor did not himself invent
- Invention was known or used by others in the US
- Invention was on sale in the US more than 1 yr prior to filing
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