1. ©opyright

2. Siva

3. Siva ©nt'd
At beginning of 20th century law favored producers at expense of consumers
IP has become America's most valuable export (50% or so of US exports)
Law has lost sight of encouraging creativity, science, and democracy; it protects producers and taxes consumers
Healthy public sphere needs thin copyright; news/mags/papers don't report on IP issues?
Corporations us IP to create artificial scarcity

4. Basics 17 U.S.C. Expression of an idea fixed in a tangible medium
Statutory law; comes from Article 1, Section 8, Clause 8 of US Constitution
Natural people = life + 70 years; Juristic people = 95 years
Public Domain (1923)
Copyright Act of 1976
No ©; only need to register with Copyright Office if you plan to sue or foresee the need to sue

5. What DOES © Protect? SCOPE!
17 U.S.C. 102
Copyright protection extends to:
"original works of authorship fixed in any tangible medium of expression, now known or later developed, from which they can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated, either directly or with the aid of a machine or device.”

6. What DOES © Protect ©ont'd?
1) LITERARY WORKS (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, textbooks, reference works, directories, catalogs, advertising copy)
2) MUSICAL WORKS (compositions, arrangements, lyrics)
3) DRAMATIC WORKS (plays, scripts for tv/cinema/radio, treatments)
4) PANTOMINES and CHOREOGRAPHY (embodied in video, audio, or written form, notation)

7. What DOES © Protect ©ont'd?
5) PICTORIAL, GRAPHIC, SCULPTURAL (pictures, prints, maps, charts, drawings, paintings, 2d/3d, mannequins, decorative belt buckles)
6) MOTION PICTURE / AUDIOVISUAL (feature film, documentary film, animated film, television show, video, videogame)
7) SOUND RECORDINGS
8) ARCHITECTUAL WORKS (1990, drawings, drafts, plans, etc.)

9. What Doesn’t © Protect? Ideas Facts Recipes, jokes, fashion Logos
News/Sports
Recipes, jokes, fashion
Logos
Names
Processes
Inventions
Gov’t!!!
Patent/Trademarks…
Trade secrets...
Formula, process, design, pattern, recipe…allow for economic advantage

10. Feist v. Rural (1991) Supreme Court decision
Feist copied from Rural's listings
Prior, “sweat of brow”
Copyrightability based in originality
Sig: Can’t copyright facts/info
Sig: Copyright can only apply to creative aspects of a collection
Alphabetical order not creative enough