Exam 7: Intellectual Property

What Supreme Court decision granted legal protection to video recorder manufacturers because their machines were found to be capable of legitimate uses, not just infringing ones where owners took content from TV channels without pay or permission?

Copyright exists the moment that a creative work is ______ .

Which of the following cannot be copyrighted?

Which one of the following companies was found liable for two types of copyright infringement - contributory and vicarious -- but after losing a famous court battle opted to become a legal service?

Rita Lott is a poet. She doesn't want to pay for copyright registration for every single poem she writes, so she generally collects a year's worth and sends them off each January 1^st. It just so happens that a poem Rita wrote in July is "stolen" from her desk by Betty Larceny. Betty publishes the poem in August. Rita may be furious but there is nothing she can do because the poem was published before Rita registered the copyright.

WINO-FM has the legal rights to play all the music in the ASCAP and BMI libraries because it pays for blanket agreements with each company. The radio station's problem though is that it doesn't have a lot of music it would like to have. Since it pays for the licensing, it can legally copy music brought to the station by its DJs, who legally bought the CDs at a local music store, to improve its collection, provided the music is licensed by ASCAP or BMI.

A bundle of rights for copyright ownership covers all rights below but one. Which one is wrong?

For a single-authored work, copyright generally exists for what period of time?