JOUR 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Got To Give It Up, Ice Ice Baby, My Sweet Lord
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As soon as you put it into a fixed medium, you can own the words but still can"t own the idea. A qualified work becomes copyrighted when fixed in a tangible medium. If you present it to people or company and they sign a non-disclosure agreement or etc. and violate it then you can sue. If earlier than 1998, add 20 years to all. If pre-1978 and cr still alive, added 67 years when 28 years term expired; back to creator, licensee pays royalties. Register with the uspto to obtain statutory damages and attorney fees. Must have filed before infringement; if not only actual damages & still gave to file before filing lawsuit. Radio and television productions - nearly all that is printed on broadcast. Note: anyone can make sound recordings once publicly performed,; statutory royalties, but not sync rights. For education: only for teachers, book chapter, an article, short story but not large scale copying.
