While giving credit to the performer is certainly a step in the right direction, unfortunately it doesn't in-and-of-itself make the use fair. Besides, recorded music usually has at least two sets of copyright owners -- one for the... Read more...
It appears to me that all of the images on the site are thumbnails. Also, the "Professional Tasting History" section of the site where users post their images of the label is described on CellarTracker's terms & conditions (T&C)... Read more...
If they are using the material for a class assignment that will simply be turned in and seen by only teacher and students, it should fall solidly under fair use. This includes pictures and images. They will need to credit sources to avoid plagiarism... Read more...
I'm not a lawyer, but this case seems pretty clear cut. Assuming the original image was created in the last 30 years, you should assume it is copyrighted unless there is affirmative evidence to the contrary. Current US Copyright Law (title 17 of the... Read more...
Echoing what MFakouri has so aptly pointed out, your use of wine label art in your own work may be permissable under Fair Use depending on the specifics of your case. The fact that your intended use is to sell, rather than to educate or perform research,... Read more...
This would be a violation of copyright. The first sale does not allow you to copy the entire book--it only entitles you to give away or dispose of the copy that you own, not make another.
The 'easy way out' under copyright law--probably... Read more...
Unfortunately this is really an area that is controversial at the moment. The answer depends on who you ask--the law as it stands now does not allow remixing without permission. There is however, a large movement to change the law, but even then there is... Read more...
It depends on what the law said when the work was created or published. There's a handy chart:
http://www.copyright.cornell.edu/training/Hirtle_Public_Domain.htm
Not a lawyer, here's my opinion-
If you mean project as in with a transparency or slide projector, document projector, or an already existing web site, then this use is very likely fine. There is a classroom exception to copyrights in a face to... Read more...
Not necessarily. Fonts themselves generally aren't protected by copyright in the US (that's sort of a generalization, there's a bit more to it than that). Font names may be trademarked, and using a particular font in a certain way may infringe on the... Read more...
The Copyright Advisory Network forums will be temporarily off-line later this week as we move to our new software. I'll post more specific detail as we make some final adjustments and will try to give advance warning the day of the switch. Hopefully, we... Read more...
Ownership of the item does not imply ownership of a copyright. Just like you can own a book or a photograph without owning the copyright, you can own a negative of an image without owning the copyright. If it was the photographer who donated the... Read more...
This is a tough question that you might need a lawyer to solve. If it's a matter of a disagreement between your partner and you, there's not much anyone else can do to help. If, as you say, you created the characters and... Read more...
That's a complicated issue. Since it's presumably a recording of your broadcast, you may have copyright in that broadcast- bit if you weren't the one who initially "fixed" the work, things can get dicey. If they have been posted to websites, you could... Read more...
If the teachers hold the copyright to their work (and it is not work performed as part of their regular employment), they had to sign a document in order to transfer any rights to anyone. They should have a... Read more...
If you have a lawful copy of the video, and you want to use it in the classroom for teaching purposes, why do you need public performance rights? In Canada, do you have an exception that allows for PP in the classroom without prior authorization? Just... Read more...
Titles aren't protected by copyright (usually). In this situation, however, you might run afoul of trademark, particularly since this particular line has been receiving a lot of attention recently. I'd...
Our school received a grant to purchase two ipod shuffles and about 11 audiobooks. Is it OK for me to "check out" one audiobook per ipod and also have a burned CD of the book--not both checked out at the same time? Is it OK to put one audiobook on the... Read more...