Word: copyrighted
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...criminal trial underway in Sweden is testing a very American notion: that artifacts that carry a copyright should not simply be lifted or stolen - that their use requires permission and compensation. That definition of intellectual property may appear almost quaint in these days when it is easy to find almost anything on the Internet and just as simple to download. But the founders of ThePirateBay.org - three geeky Swedish would-be cultural revolutionaries who were funded in part by user donations - are in the process of finding out whether they face prison time for facilitating that process for their users...
...response to the incident the University Office of the General Counsel wrote in an e-mail that “under the federal Copyright Act of 1976, a lecture is automatically copyrighted as long as the professor prepared some tangible expression of the content—notes, an outline, a script, a video or audio recording...
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...hope for an amicable solution.' PAUL COLFORD, Associated Press director of media relations, after the AP declared that it owns the copyright--and deserves credit and compensation--for the image used by graphic artist Shepard Fairey in his iconic portrait of Barack Obama...
...Fairey did not do anything wrong. He should not have to put up with misguided threats from the AP.' JULIE A. AHRENS, an attorney for Fairey, announcing a countersuit that argues his use of the original photograph constitutes "transformative use," which is protected under copyright...