EOC:Quotes from the book

“Copyright infringement is any unauthorized use of a copyrighted work that violates the copyright owner’s exclusive rights in the work constitutes infringement.”  (Patent, Copyright and trademark, PG237).

“A copyright gives the owner of the creative work the right to keep others from unauthorized use of the work. Under copyright law, a creative work, must meet all of these three criteria to be protected. It must be original, it must be fixed in a tangible medium of expression and it must have at least some creativity (must be produced by an exercise of human intellect.” (Patent, Copyright and trademark, PG197).

“Assignment of copyright is the transfer of all or a portion of a copyright to a new owner. An assignment usually involves the permanent transfer of the entire copyright, but an assignment may also transfer less than whole the whole copyright.” (Patent, Copyright and trademark, PG214).

“Collaboration agreement is when coauthors want to specify their rights, obligations and percentage of copyright ownership and revenues, they enter into a collaboration.” (Patent, Copyright and trademark, PG224).

“Duration of copyrights is how long a copyright lasts in the US and depends on when the work covered by the copyright was first created.”  (Patent, Copyright and trademark, PG255).

“Exclusive license, which must be in writing, is a contract in which a copyright owner authorizes another person or entity to exclusively exercise one or more of the rights that belong to the copyright owner under the copyright.”  (Patent, Copyright and trademark, PG261).

“Grant of rights is commonly used in the license agreements and other contracts pertaining to intellectual property, refers to the rights being transferred under the agreement.”  (Patent, Copyright and trademark, PG276).

“Independent creation is when an author independently creates a work, it is considered original, even though it may be highly similar to another work created by someone else.”  (Patent, Copyright and trademark, PG279).

“Joint work is work prepared by two or more authors who intend to merge their contributions into inseparable or interdependent parts of the whole.”  (Patent, Copyright and trademark, PG287).

“Licensing of copyrights is a method by which the owner of a copyright gives permission for another to use or copy an original work of authorship.”  (Patent, Copyright and trademark, PG289).

“Permission, copyright protection extends to any original work regardless of who created it and permission is required for reproduction, display, or distribution of the work. The reason for acquiring permission is to avoid lawsuit.”  (Patent, Copyright and trademark, PG310).

“Photography images are protectable under copyright law whether in print or digital format. The photographer is considered the author and the original owner of the copyright. Absent an agreement transferring rights, a person who os photographed does not acquire copyright ownership in the photo. However, a person who is the subject of the photograph may be able to prevent its reproduction under legal theories such as the right of publicity, defamation or invasion of privacy.  (Patent, Copyright and trademark, PG312).

“Published work is an original work of authorship which is only considered published under the Copyright Act when it is first made available for the public on an unrestricted basis.”  (Patent, Copyright and trademark, PG320).