PUBPOL 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Sound Recording And Reproduction, First-Sale Doctrine, Patent Infringement
Document Summary
Uncopyrightable: facts and ideas processes, methods, systems, procedures, recipes. Federal gov documents unoriginal works works that have lapsed into the public domain if use falls outside the copyright holder"s s. 106 rights. Sec 107 fair use factors - 4 part test purpose and character of the use personal/educational/transformative v. commercial use the more commercial, the more likely it is not a fair use. Parody: comments on the original work itself, do not need permission from copyright holder of the original work. Satire: comments on another work using a di erent medium of expression, must get permission from copyright holder permission does not need to be in writing to be legally e ective. Copyright v. infringement: copying someone else"s facts or ideas may be plagiarism (or patent infringement or ) but it"s not copyright infringement. Peer-to-peer file sharing is sometimes lawful: when its fair use when you are the copyright holder when work is already in the public domain.
