Under the Copyright Act, a compilation is a "work formed by the collection and assembling of preexisting materials or of data that are selected, coordinated, or arranged in such a way that the resulting work as a whole constitutes an original...
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Compulsory license is a statutorily created license that allows the use of copyrighted materials without the explicit permission of the copyright owner. In exchange, a royalty is paid to the copyright holder. In cases of copyright concerning...
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A copy means an imitation or reproduction or duplicate of an original. Some common usesof the term “copy” in a legal sense include:
In the context of copyright law, cases such as this one from the Ninth Circuit, explain that “copy” for... (Wex page)
Copyright is the exclusive legal right to reproduce, publish, sell, or distribute the matter and form of something.
Overview - U.S. Copyright ActThe U.S. Copyright Act, (codified at 17 U.S.C. §§ 101 - 810), is federal...
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A copyright owner is the entity that owns the exclusive rights comprised within a copyright. Copyright owners have specific rights, such as reproduction of the work, distribution of the work, production of products deriving from the work or...
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Derivative work refers to a copyrighted work that comes from another copyrighted work. Copyrights allow their owners to decide how their works can be used, including creating new derivative works off of the original product. Derivative works...
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“Fixed in a tangible medium of expression” is one of the requirements for receiving copyright protection for a work under the Copyright Act in 17 U.S.C. § 102(a). In order to apply for copyright protection, a work must fulfill all the...
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Fourth Estate Public Benefit Corporation (“Fourth Estate”) is an organization that creates online news articles. Fourth Estate Pub. Benefit Corp. v. Wall-Street.com at 2. Fourth Estate owns copyright in the articles it produces and licenses those...
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In 1989, the United States became a party to the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works (“Berne Convention”). See Golan v. Holder, 609 F.3d 1076, 1080 (10th Cir. 2010). The Berne Convention called for its member nations to...
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Petitioner Helsinn Healthcare S.A. (“Helsinn”) owns four patents: U.S. Patent No(s). 7,947,724 (“724 patent”), 7,947,725 (“725 patent”), 7,960,424 (“424 patent”), and 8,598,219 (“219 patent”), which relate to the drug palonosetron used in the treatment...