Sentences with phrase «by copyright law because»
Lucas took the designer to court for copyright infringement, but the court ruled the replicas were not covered by copyright law because they are not works of art.
http://www.canadianbusiness.com/ Not exact matches
In a majority opinion written by Judge Christopher F. Droney, the appeals court said the Barry Diller - backed Internet company does not appear to violate copyright law because subscribers are assigned to their own tiny antennas at Aereo's Brooklyn data centre.
SiriusXM and Pandora had stopped paying performance royalties to artists and record labels for recordings made prior to 1972, because sound recordings were only recognized by federal copyright law in 1972.
UW System spokesperson David Giroux said the system denied the open records request for the syllabi because the documents are the protected by state copyright laws because they are the intellectual property of the professors who draft them.
Usually this is because they view a copyright (incorrectly, by law and my opinion) as the same as ownership of real estate or some other possession.
books not protected by U.S. copyright laws, usually because they were published before 1923 and thus any period of protection under U.S. law has expired
Law and regulations do not lose their public domain status and become subject to copyright because they were drafted by a private party as «works for hire.»
You fundamentally want to ignore the law of copyright as applied to musical compositions and that simply isn't possible legally, although obviously, if the old «Real Book» contains only songs that are out of copyright (usually pre-1923, but more complicated in the case of songs that were historically governed by state law than for other copyrighted works that were historically governed by federal law), you wouldn't have a problem and many Jazz compositions are in the public domain because they are sufficiently old.
I support it because if his call for revisions is heeded, as it should be, this may be the first time that changes to copyright law are inspired, not by the coming expiry of Mickey Mouse's copyright or related corporate interests, but by a sense of people's rights and interests in fairly accessing knowledge.