LEGL 4200 Exam 3 Review Questions and answers, rated A+| LATEST EXAM UPDATES| 2024/25 |

LEGL 4200 Exam 3 Review Questions and answers, rated A+ Congress shall have the right to... - -promote progress of science and arts by securing exclusive rights for limited times to authors and inventors Burrow-Giles v. Sarony making copies of Sarony's photo of Oscar Wilde - -Copyright Act goes beyond writings to include visible expression so long as they are of original intellect (have in head and express in visible form).... the photo is a "writing" and "work of authorship" What does copyright law protect? - -original works of authorship fixed in a tangible medium of expression (whether published or not) including literary, music, dramatic, choreographic, visual, video, sound, and architecture Copyright law does NOT protect - -idea, procedure, process, system, method, concept, principle, discovery, etc... it protects a specific expression of an idea not the idea itself How does copyright law "promote the progress of science" - -1. economic incentive to exclusive rights to created work... 2. create a robust public domain for public .... there is a hard balance between these two and ideally public domain should win Does copyright protect ideas or facts? - -no only expressions of them... i.e. star wars owns Darth Vader and Luke but not sci fi movies in space... I can own a design of bee-style jewelry but not all beestyle jewelry... I can own a history book I wrote, but not the facts in it What is an expression? - -creativity (cannot be exact copy)... must be something new/unique Bleistein v. Donaldson when Donaldson made copies of a bunch of Circus ads that bleistein made - - Court said that it cannot determine whether something is art or not but it is a creative expression therefore the ads are protected by copyright Feist Pubs. v. Rural Telephones where Rural made a phone book and Feist copied it and got caught - -Even though it was copied without additional originality, a list of names is just information and not a copyrightable original expression