Any person or entity wishing to use intellectual property held under copyright must receive permission from the copyright holder to use this work, and often will be asked to pay for the use of copyrighted material.

In Australia and the United Kingdom it has been held that a single word is insufficient to comprise a copyright work.

Piracy is considered to be the illegitimate use of materials held by copyright.

Further meetings were held with his accountant at which Harrison and Mr and Mrs Blair were confirmed as directors of the company and at which Harrison claimed that the " service agreement " was executed, giving copyright to the company.

Locke had spent the early 1690s campaigning against the statute, considering it " ridiculous " that the works of dead authors were held perpetually in copyright.

1987 ), which held that Columbia Pictures violated the copyright that Steinberg held on his work.

And, despite continued denials by the band, it settled a five-year legal battle with Hudson, paying him $ 600, 000 after he proved he held the copyright to the song " Thug " which appeared on Eliminator.

Although no copyright applies to the song in Australia and many other countries, the Australian Olympic organisers had to pay royalties to Carl Fischer Music following the song being played at the 1996 Summer Olympics held in Atlanta.

Supreme Court precedent, he argued, held that one must be able to discern an " outer limit " to a limited power ; in the case of retrospective copyright extensions, Congress could continue to extend copyright terms indefinitely through a set of limited extensions, thus rendering the " limited times " requirement meaningless.

As such, the king or queen of Canada is the employer of all government officials and staff ( including the viceroys, judges, members of the Canadian Forces, police officers, and parliamentarians ), the guardian of foster children ( Crown wards ), as well as the owner of all state lands ( Crown land ), buildings and equipment ( Crown held property ), state owned companies ( Crown corporations ), and the copyright for all government publications ( Crown copyright ).

The copyright for A First Wiradjuri Dictionary is held by the Wiradjuri Council of Elders.

Maciunas ' original plan had been to design, edit and pay for each edition himself, in exchange for the copyright to be held by the collective.

In 1963, the British Communist Party, which held the copyright to Ten Days that Shook the World in the United Kingdom, had offered Taylor the opportunity to write the introduction to a new edition.

On 17 August 2004, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued a partial ruling supporting Grokster, holding This appeal presents the question of whether distributors of peer-to-peer file-sharing networking software may be held contributorily or vicariously liable for copyright infringements by users.

The second NTFA convention with official support from Hasbro Nordic, now renamed " NordCon " ( to avoid copyright problems with the name " Mini-Con ") was held in Aalborg, Denmark from 19 June to 20 June 2010.

Derived from a digital capture ( scan / photo ) of the album / CD cover ( creator of this digital version is irrelevant as the copyright in all equivalent images is still held by the same party ).

Source: Derived from a digital capture ( scan / photo ) of the album / CD cover ( creator of this digital version is irrelevant as the copyright in all equivalent images is still held by the same party ).

Derived from a digital capture ( scan / photo ) of the album / CD cover ( creator of this digital version is irrelevant as the copyright in all equivalent images is still held by the same party ).

Derived from a digital capture ( scan / photo ) of the album / CD cover ( creator of this digital version is irrelevant as the copyright in all equivalent images is still held by the same party ).

Derived from a digital capture ( scan / photo ) of the album / CD cover ( creator of this digital version is irrelevant as the copyright in all equivalent images is still held by the same party ).

Derived from a digital capture ( scan / photo ) of the album / CD cover ( creator of this digital version is irrelevant as the copyright in all equivalent images is still held by the same party ).

After a fixed amount of time, the copyright expires on intellectual work and it enters the public domain, where it can be used without limit.

The copyright on Pooh expires in 2026.

" Since the playwright's wishes were not protected by copyright, Ibsen decided to avoid the danger of being re-written by a lesser dramatist by committing what he called a " barbaric outrage " on his play himself and giving it an alternative ending in which Nora did not leave.

As soon as a work is " fixed ", that is, written or recorded on some physical medium, its author is automatically entitled to all copyrights in the work, and to any derivative works unless and until the author explicitly disclaims them, or until the copyright expires.

The United States and most Latin American countries instead entered into the Buenos Aires Convention in 1910, which required a copyright notice ( such as all rights reserved ) on the work, and permitted signatory nations to limit the duration of copyrights to shorter and renewable terms.

For example, the copyright to a Mickey Mouse cartoon restricts others from making copies of the cartoon or creating derivative works based on Disney's particular anthropomorphic mouse, but does not prohibit the creation of other works about anthropomorphic mice in general, so long as they are different enough to not be judged copies of Disney's.

Copyright law recognises the right of an author based on whether the work actually is an original creation, rather than based on whether it is unique ; two authors may own copyright on two substantially identical works, if it is determined that the duplication was coincidental, and neither was copied from the other.

But if the intended exploitation of the work includes publication ( or distribution of derivative work, such as a film based on a book protected by copyright ) outside the U. S., the terms of copyright around the world must be considered.

* WhyNotAskMe. org: Organization demanding democratic participation in copyright legislation and a moratorium on secret and fast-tracked copyright negotiations

The controversy over software patents is about specific algorithms or techniques that the software contains, which may not be duplicated by others and considered intellectual property and copyright infringement depending on the severity.

Due to copyright reasons only viewers residing in the UK could see them on the ITV site.

In copyright law, European directive 2004 / 48 / EC on the Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights bases damages on, " the amount of royalties which would have been due if the infringer has requested authorisation ".

Arguments made by legal experts stated influence on art style is not copyright infringement. Glass warfare from the website of the St. Petersburg TimesThe Seattle Times: Local News: Glass artist Chihuly's lawsuit tests limits of copyrighting art, a 2005 article from The Seattle Times ; Chihuly settled the lawsuit independently with Rubino initially, and later Kaindl as well. Chihuly, rival glass artist settle dispute a 2006 article from The Seattle Times

However, a French court ruled, in June 1990, that a special lighting display on the tower in 1989, for the tower's 100th anniversary, was an " original visual creation " protected by copyright.

Thus, SETE could not claim copyright on photographs or panoramas of Paris incorporating the lit tower.

* There is no copyright on the songs.

The mainstream press coverage has been primarily concerned with Freenet's impact on copyright enforcement, rather than Freenet's asserted goal of freedom of communication.

In March 2004, Grey Ghost Press acquired the copyright of Fudge, and on April 6, 2005, they released a version of Fudge under the Open Game License.

Since it was a work created by the US federal government, a copyright cannot be placed on the source code, making the source code in the public domain.

( e. g. an undetectable performance-enhancing gene therapy was used by one of the characters on himself, but to avoid copyright infringement, this gene therapy was modified from the tested-to-be-harmless original, which produced a fatal cardiovascular defect )