PUBPOL 201 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Redigi, Trade Secret, Substantial Similarity
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To promote the progress of science and the useful arts. Originality, work of authorship, fixed in a tangible medium of expression. Derivative works, public performance, public display, distribution, reproduction. The copyright holder loses all exclusive rights and the public is free to do what they want with the work. Once it enters the public domain, it stays there. Facts and ideas, processes, federal government documents, uses outside the six exclusive rights of copyright holders, unoriginal works, works that have lapsed into the public domain. Can move around your own files, share with close friends, and share not copyrighted works. When you are sharing copyrighted work with tons of strangers, especially for commercial purpose and if it undermines the industry. Plagiarism is copying someone"s work without crediting them. You can have permission to use somebody"s copyrighted work, but still be plagiarizing if you do not put their name on the work. The manner in which they are creatively expressed is copyrightable.
