Word: copyright
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...rhetorical fit Monday when first hearing the news of the U.S. intention, on behalf of the American music and film industries, to bring a case to the WTO. "Many countries are facing the same challenges in their anti-piracy campaigns," said Chen Zhaokuan, deputy director of China's Copyright Society. "For China, we are a latecomer in this area, and it's natural that the sense of copyright protection among the Chinese people is not that strong. Considering how much work we have done to promote the copyrights protection and to fight against piracy in the past 10 years...
...that students can have the opportunity to shop for books early and to sell their books back to the Coop. The second suggestion called on professors to utilize Harvard’s abundant online resources, which often include digital versions of the same readings for which students pay copyright fees when buying printed coursepacks. The letter comes just over two weeks after the Undergraduate Council unanimously passed legislation allocating $1,000 to an effort that aims to make books more affordable for students. UC President Ryan A. Petersen ’08 and Student Affairs Committee Chair Michael R. Ragalie...
...tuning in” online—perhaps it’s niche music communities, perhaps more listener control—has made it an island of success in the otherwise tempest-tossed contemporary broadcasting industry.But stormy skies threaten the future of webcasting.Recent legislation aimed at correcting the copyright errors of the past and preventing the copyright infringements of the future is jeopardizing the ability of internet-only radio stations and smaller terrestrial stations (such as college and high school stations) to continue with their online programming.The prohibitive costs of the legislation, coupled with difficult logging and tracking procedures...
...outcome, however, was the same. You can't call dibs on an idea. "Everybody is allowed to have ideas, so there's no legal protection for them," says legal commentator Ian Caplin. "But once you express an idea, the law says that copyright can protect that expression." But in this case, both courts agreed that the theories Baigent and Leigh are trying so hard to protect are ideas, not expression. So Brown - and anyone else - is free to use them. Upholding last year's ruling, the appeals court said that the law can't be used to "monopolize historical research...
...That the case even got to an appeal says a lot about how unusual it is. "This case stretched the envelope in terms of the traditional copyright claim scenario," says Caplin. Most copyright trials deal with more obvious breaches of the law, like when chunks of text are lifted from one source and plunked down into another. Cases of cut-and-paste can be pretty cut-and-dry. But the Da Vinci Code case deals with the intangible concepts of ideas, theories and themes. "Has Brown taken away abstract ideas from another source, ideas that are too general...