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Question: When is my work protected?

Answer:"Your work is under copyright protection the moment it is created and fixed in a tangible form that it is perceptible either directly or with the aid of a machine or device. "


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Although copyright is an exclusive right - a sort of restricted monopoly - it is limited in various respects.

Authors control only rights specified under the copyright law and may not control other uses. Copyright is also limited by duration and, under American law, by fair use.

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Copyright Exceptions is protection that subsists from the time the work is created in fixed form. Many aspects to Copyrights exist, such as U.S. Copyright Law, Digital Audio Transmission, Interim Designation, contact our firm to find out more.

Copyrights in each separate contribution to a periodical or other collective work is distinct from copyright in the collective work as a whole and vests initially with the author of the contribution.

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Copyright protection is available for all unpublished works, regardless of the nationality or domicile of the author.

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Copyright protects original works of authorship that are fixed in a tangible form of expression. The fixation need not be directly perceptible so long as it may be communicated with the aid of a machine or device. Permission must be obtain to use a copyright by a separte entity. Copyright Exceptions and copyrights last for the life of the author plus 70 years.


NOTE:
Before 1978, federal copyright was generally secured by the act of publication with notice of copyright, assuming compliance with all other relevant statutory conditions. U. S. works in the public domain on January 1, 1978, (for example, works published without satisfying all conditions for securing federal copyright under the Copyright Act of 1909) remain in the public domain under the 1976 Copyright Act.

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Copyright News

Study Group to Host Public Roundtables on Copyright Exceptions
The committee consists of independent experts from the commercial and not-for profit sectors

U. S. Copyright Office Welcomes Students During Copyright Awareness Week
students and teachers from across the country are invited to visit the Librarys James Madison Building to meet with copyright specialists

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Patent

Definition:
In the United States, a grant by the federal government to an inventor of the right to exclude others from making, using, or selling the invention. There are three very different kinds of patents in the United States: a utility patent on the functional aspects of products and processes; a design patent on the ornamental design of useful objects; and a plant patent on a new variety of living plant. Patents do not protect "ideas," only structures and methods that apply technological concepts. In return for receiving the right to exclude others from a precisely defined scope of technology, industrial design, or plant variety, which is the gist of a patent, the inventor must fully disclose the details of the invention to the public.

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