MBU 2520 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Musical Composition, United States District Court, Sound Recording And Reproduction
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Fundamentals of copyright law: constitution: article 1, section 8, clause 8. To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries. Trying to promote science and arts within the us by creating this clause to protect the people who created them and giving them the rights to it, but only for a limited time. i. Life + 70 years: statute a law passed by congress, our current copyright statute: 17 u. s. c. 101 et al: 17 = title, u. s. c. = united states code (the general and permanent laws of the. Usc has 54 titles; some only fit in one volume (book) and others take many volumes. Title 17 is 2 volume: 101 = the chapter/section, et al.