MUSIC-UA 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Universal Copyright Convention, Phonorecord, Compulsory License
14 Dec 2016
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Copyright is a form of protection provided by the laws of the us for intellectual property. That body of exclusive rights granted by law to authors for protection of their work. The us became a party to the universal copyright convention in 1955 & to the. Essential provisions: statute preempts nearly all other copyright laws - both statutory & common law. Only the federal copyright act can provide protection from most types of works. Audiovisual works - works that consist of a series of related images intended to be shown via projectors, viewers, or electronic equipment, together w/accompanying sounds, if any. Best edition - edition, published in the us at any time before the date of deposit, that the library of congress determines to be the most suitable for its purposes. Collective work - work in which a number of contributions, constituting separate. & independent works in themselves, are assembled into a collective whole.
