Overview‐Policies
Copyright protection provides the owner of an original work of authorship the right to prevent others from using the work without the owner’s permission.
Copyright law protects against the copying of an “expression of an idea” but does not protect the idea itself.
this protection is limited compared to patent law because copyright law allows for independent creation of a copyrighted work as a defense to copyright infringement.
The theory is that 2 people can create exact or similar works without copying one another; therefore, each has copyright protection in their respective work.
The policy is similar to patents. We want to encourage creativity, but also provide the public with the freest possible access to
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copyright law applied to works created today. [Our focus.]
Earlier created works are governed by either the “Copyright Act of 1976, originally enacted” or the “Copyright Act of 1909
Subject Matter of Copyrights
Copyright Act provides a long list of works that may be copyrighted, but the list is not exclusive.
the law is left fluid, allowing courts to extend copyright protection to new forms and ways of expressing ideas, as they may be developed in the future. Today, the Copyright Act provides that Copyright protection extends to “original works of authorship fixed in any tangible medium of expression, now known or later developed, from which they can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated, either directly or with the aid of a machine or device.”
The 2 key requirements are:
1) Original‐ meaning that the author created the work and did not copy it from someone else.
there must be some level of creativity involved
in the Feist case, the court held that arranging the listings of a telephone book alphabetically was not creative enough
names, addresses and phone numbers are public facts or data and are not original and therefore not copyrightable; but the arrangement and selection of facts or data may be copyrightable if done in an original way;
alphabetizing is simply not original.
2) Fixation‐ in order to receive copyright
Plagiarism is when you copy someone else’s work whether it be research, ideas, or photos, and say
1) Since the injured plaintiff was not wearing a seatbelt, why is Ford being sued for failing to test the seatbelt sleeve?
Recently, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit announced its 2-1 decision in Akamai Techs., Inc. v. Limelight Networks, Inc., upholding the “joint infringement defense” under which a patent cannot be infringed upon if the infringement relies on two or more parties acting independently.
Plagiarism is an act of lying, cheating, a form of deception. However, it's an easy alternative to getting your work done. People believe that they can get away with plagiarism, but every time the action is done, the risk increases. "What I found is that when you cross the line once, it becomes easier, and easier, to cross it again" (Blair). Jayson Blair was a former journalist in the New York Times who dedicate their lives to finding the truth. In a surprising turn of events, it was revealed that Blair wasn't creating his own work.
Mr. Wright enlisted in the Navy in October 2008. In 2010, he participated in an anti-piracy operation which took place in the Suez Canal and the Red Sea. After the operation, Wright was assigned to serve at USS San Jacinto (Norfolk, VA). In Norfolk, Mr. Wright was tested positive for marijuana in on urinalysis test. After being taken to Captain’s Mast, Mr. Wright pleaded guilty. On January 7, 2011, Mr. Wright was administratively discharged under other than honorable conditions. While record indicates that Mr. Wright had a pre-service drug waiver for using marijuana before joining the Navy, Mr. Wright did not have any non-judicial punishments (NJPs) or Article 15s (or Captain’s Masts) prior to the positive urinalysis test.
In the defense of Professor Faden, I believe that his video is protected under fair use. The intentions of the video was to teach others about copyright, and because it was used for educational purposes, it is completely legal for Faden to have used the scenes from the Walt Disney Studio films. In the Title seventeen, Chapter one of the United States code, it states that the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes, is protected under the fair use doctrine.
Plagiarism is the act of taking someone else’s words or ideas and claiming it as your own. Also,
The origins of Australia and Singapore’s law of copyright are connected as both the laws first originated from the United Kingdom (UK). The first copyright statute, British Statute of Anne 1710 which was named after Queen Anne, was initially applied to the copying of books only. As the first modern copyright law, it recognized copyright as an author’s right, a major and important change in philosophy and in law. Registration of works in the Stationers’ Company register book was required of the owners of the rights as a condition of protection.
This paper will discuss the history of media shield laws in the U.S. and Hawaii. It will argue the pros and cons of the need and importance of such shield laws in Hawaii to help enhance the First Amendment. According to the West 's Encyclopedia of American Law (n.d.) shield laws are statues that “make communications between news reporters and informants confidential and privileged, freeing journalists of the obligation to testify about them in court.” The encyclopedia compares this to a doctor-patient, lawyer-client or priest-parishioner privilege. Where these laws are in action, journalists are free to protect their sources. If subpoenaed by a state court, journalists are free to refuse to give up their confidential sources or unpublished material. This makes it easier for journalists to report on a broad variety of topics, but these laws are also controversial because they challenge the government interests when it comes to bringing criminals to justice (Shield Laws, n.d.). Research shows that Hawaii used to have a shield law – the best in the country according to several people – but it was overturned in 2013. Today, 49 states and the District of Colombia have implemented shield laws of different variation of protection (Riker, 2015). At the same time, there does not exist any media shield laws at the federal level (Shield Laws 101, n.d.).
Due to how abusable current copyright laws are, they must be reformed to prevent copyright trolling. According to Matthew Sag, “The essence of trolling is that the plaintiff is more focused on the business of litigation than on selling a product or service or licensing their IP to third parties to sell a product or a service” (“Copyright Trolling, An Empirical Study” page 4). Copyright trolls seek to acquire their income from suing others on copyright violations, rather than continually creating new works and using copyright to protect them. Copyright, whether one agrees with the concept or not, was not designed for this purpose. People should not be allowed to make a business off of suing others. This is not only unjust, but wastes the court’s time with actual crimes. The United States must reform its current laws to prevent this type of behavior from happening. According to Parker Higgins, “Like email spammers, copyright trolls depend on the ability to cheaply cast a very wide net, sending out hundreds or thousands of accusations at once and getting settlement payments back from some percentage” (“Copyright trolls suffer big loss” par. 3). Many trolls do not target specific groups or people; rather, they spread it in such a way that any company or organization can accidentally “misuse” it. This creates an environment in which it is impossible for many groups to tell if they can use another party’s content without invoking a ludicrous copyright lawsuit. This is not a
Plagiarism is the act of copying someone else's work and putting it as one's work . Plagiarism goes beyond just copying out the idea and work, it is also discredits the work done by another person that has previously worked on the idea as it presents the idea as original.
What benefits do you think the authors of the US Constitution had in mind when they included the right of authors and inventors to have exclusive use of their writings and discoveries for a limited time?
Copyright is legal protection for creators of original works, including literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, audiovisual, and other intellectual works. With the exceptions listed below, copyright holders have the only right (and the only right to authorize others) to do the following: to reproduce the work; to make derivative works; to distribute copies of the work; to perform the work; and to display the work publicly. Mere ownership of a book, illustration, photograph or negative, videotape, or musical work does NOT give the possessor the copyright.
Multimedia security is ever demanding area of research covering different aspects of electrical engineering and computer science. In this chapter, our main focus is encryption of JPEG2000 compatible images. Though both stream and block cipher have been investigated in the literature, but this chapter provides a detailed study of block cipher as applied to images, since JPEG2000 generates various subband sizes as blocks. In the first section, we briefly define various encryption components like wavelet transform, bit plane decomposition, XOR operation, artificial neural network, seed key generator and chaotic map functions, for interest of the reader. Later in section 2, we present literature review of various encryption techniques from two perspectives: applications to highlight scope of research in this domain; and approaches to provide overall view of multimedia encryption. The section three provides a new two-layer encryption technique for JPEG2000 compatible images. The first step provides a single layer of encryption using a neural network to generate a pseudo-random sequence with a 128-bit key, which XORs with bit planes obtained from image subbands to generate encrypted sequences. The second step develops another layer of encryption using a cellular neural network with a different 128-bit key to develop sequences with hyper chaotic behavior. These sequences XOR with selected encrypted bit planes (obtained in step 1) to generate doubly-encrypted bit planes. Finally,
Plagiarism is a act of imprinting another person's writing, conversation, or even ideas. This even includes the information one gets from WebPages, the published papers online and even articles