LAW 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 45: Visnews, Zoey Tur
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Law 101: copyrights: the exclusive right given by fed. statute to creator of a literary or an artistic work to use, reproduce, & display the work. The berne convention: international treaty; copyright of works of all u. s. authors is protected automatically in all nations that have agreed under treaty to treat nationals of other member countries like own nationals. However, if infringement is completed in the u. s. & the copied work is then disseminated overseas, there is liability under the act for the resulting extraterritorial damages. Ex: the los angeles news service (lans), an independent news organization, produced two copyrighted videotapes of the beating of reginald. Denny during the los angeles riots of april 1992, & lans licensed them to nbc for use on the today show in new york. Visnews taped the works & transmitted them by satellite to reuters in london, which provided copies to its overseas subscribers.
