When working in the US, we apply US Copyright law in our activities. As you noted in your post, US Copyright law (Title 17, Section 105) only provides for the public domain status of US federal works (and there are caveats as to what constitutes a US... Read more...
Lea, It sounds like you are doing some wonderful programming on behalf of your young patrons!
Because you are publicly performing a song and redistributing it over the Internet, your use would be a copyright violation if the song is... Read more...
To be eligible for copyright protection, a work must have a minimal amount of original creativity. The examples above, in my individual opinion, skate that line, but some may argue they are copyright-worthy. In general, questions in textbooks and... Read more...
florida, My understanding from library legal scholars is that no one factor in the four factors nalaysis trumps the others and that no one factor is dispositive. All four factors need to be considered in aggregate.
Barry,
I personally would consider the copy on physical reserve the same as the electronic. Whichever way you use it, you are still making copies of an item that you feel exceeds fair use limit. A copy is a copy. It does seem to me that putting... Read more...
I'm not really clear about what you mean by 'copyright letter'. Do you mean a letter that you will send to the copyright holder requesting permission to perform and publish the translation? If so, you might check the publisher's website--most have either... Read more...
Libraries who are lending eReaders (with content loaded) are doing so under the license which allowed them to download the content to that particular eReader. There is no reproduction of the content (i.e., borrowers are not downloading the content to... Read more...
Your first step is to do some research to find out who currently owns the recordings you wish to reissue. A quick look via Google suggests that Geffen bought out MCA and that Universal Music Enterprises http://www.umeportal.com/ might now be handling MCA... Read more...
Photographers can claim copyright ownership of photographs they take. If you wish to use a photograph protected by copyright in commercial software, you would need to get the copyright owner's permission to avoid copyright infringement. If you do not... Read more...
If you are just doing it for yourself for practice or for your own enjoyment, you can do anything you want. If you want to publish it, then there are copyright concerns that may differ from country to country.
Generally speaking, web posting of content that is copyrighted by someone else is an infringement of the owner's rights and you would be legally liable for violating copyright law.
However, if you create the tutorials yourself and... Read more...
In considering what the copyright issues might be in using a particular work, an initial question should be whether the work is, in fact, protected. We can assume that Crispian de Passe's 1615 "A Garden of Flowers" is in the public domain due to the age... Read more...
Copying someone else's content (even as a screen shot) and displaying it to the public on a presentation slide implicates two rights controlled by the copyright owner: the right of reproduction and the right of public display. You would need permission... Read more...
It sounds like you want to use some charts from a report that you purchased to deliver a seminar, and you are wondering if your use would constitute a Fair Use under US Copyright law.
Your first question is difficult to address without getting more specific information on what copyrighted content you are trying to use in your app, and how exactly you are using the copyrighted content in your app.
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Your instincts are right, in the sense that a public reading of a copyrighted book, with recordings of that reading distributed in unlimited fashion, could be violations of the copyright owner(s)' rights. In fact, the scenario you describe has the... Read more...
Your interesting posting seems to contain multiple questions that touch on various legal matters, including but not limited to copyright. This forum is specifically dedicated to copyright -- we are not equipped or qualified... Read more...
When your club licensed the rights to perform the play, did you include these other uses in your negotiations? On its own, videotaping the performance without permission of the play's copyright holder could be a violation of his/her rights as well as a... Read more...
The use of geospatial data can be pretty complex, so thanks for the additional info. As a science librarian with GIS training, I am still having a hard time understanding how exactly you are using the copyrighted data. It is... Read more...
Jimprince, By the term 'copyright letter,' are you referring to a letter in which you request permission from the copyright holder to allow you to translate the book into your native language? Or are you referring to a 'cease and desist' letter which you... Read more...
If the author owns the rights and does not want translations made available, under American copyright, you can't do this. One of the rights a copyright owner holds in the US is the right to allow translations. The only other thing I might suggest is... Read more...
Silverhalide, the description of your company's service -- where you are deliberately trying to make the design style look as close to a well known magazine as possible -- seems like you could be creating brand confusion. For this reason, you could be... Read more...
There are two exceptions in US copyright law (US Code, Title 17) which libraries generally rely on to legally reproduce an entire book for patron use: (1) Section 108 and (2) Section 107.