COM 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 89: Reality Television, Robin Thicke, United States Constitution

• School: University of Miami
• Department: Communication
• Course: COM 250
• Professor: Terilli Samuel

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Plagiarism: under the law it"s copyright: unlike the theft of a physical object, the court can"t prove 100% that it is yours or not. : what can you do for rights of authorship. Copyright represents a balancing act: free speech, you can"t own an idea. You own the expression of the idea, but not the idea itself: film, webpages, paintings, reality tv, musical composition: you only own it for a limited time, you can"t copyright facts o. Once copyright experies it goes into the public domain and anyone can use it. Copy right is not one right but five: reproduce it, distribution, adaptation (when you turn a book into a movie, a song into a play) What"s in the public domain: it has to be super old.