Tarot by HH
Originally by jan50jan:- Therefore, my tarot journal is full of illegal materials?? Making my head swim
.but does this make sense as far as how it might apply to copywrite laws
.I could never study or repeat what I see
[/quote] What makes you say that? Copyrights are not about limiting access to information
Far from it
When the discussion began it related to copying decks in their entirety from a CD
This is quite different from using quotes and excerpt in a tarot journal.I included in a previous post a URL that details fair use and the American Heritage Dictionary gives us a succinct definition of copyright: The legal right granted to an author, a composer, a playwright, a publisher, or a distributor to exclusive publication, production, sale, or distribution of a literary, musical, dramatic, or artistic work
Copyright infringement occurs when an individual reproduces copyrighted material without paying royalties or licensing fees, or without express permission of the copyright holder
Source: Copyright Office, Library of Congress Copyright is a form of protection provided by the laws of the U.S
(title 17, U.S
Code) to the authors of "original works of authorship," including literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, and certain other intellectual works
This protection is available to both published and unpublished works
Section 106 of the Copyright Act generally gives the owner of copyright the exclusive right to do and to authorize others to do the following: To reproduce the copyrighted work in copies or phonorecords; To prepare derivative works based upon the copyrighted work; To distribute copies or phonorecords of the copyrighted work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending; To perform the copyrighted work publicly, in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and motion pictures and other audiovisual works; and To display the copyrighted work publicly, in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and pictorial, graphic, or sculptural works, including the individual images of a motion picture or other audiovisual work
It is illegal for anyone to violate any of the rights provided by the act to the owner of copyright
These rights, however, are not unlimited in scope
Sections 107 through 119 of the Copyright Act establish limitations on these rights
In some cases, these limitations are specified exemptions from copyright liability
One major limitation is the doctrine of "fair use," which is given a statutory basis by section 107 of the act
In other instances, the limitation takes the form of a "compulsory license" under which certain limited uses of copyrighted works are permitted upon payment of specified royalties and compliance with statutory conditions
Copyright protection subsists from the time the work is created in fixed form; that is, it is an incident of the process of authorship
The copyright in the work of authorship immediately becomes the property of the author who created it
Only the author or those deriving their rights from the author can rightfully claim copyright
In the case of works made for hire, the employer and not the employee is presumptively considered the author
Section 101 of the copyright statute defines a "work made for hire" as: (1) a work prepared by an employee within the scope of his or her employment; or (2) a work specially ordered or commissioned for use as a contribution to a collective work, as a part of a motion picture or other audiovisual work, as a translation, as a supplementary work, as a compilation, as an instructional text, as a test, as answer material for a test, or as an atlas, if the parties expressly agree in a written instrument signed by them that the work shall be considered a work made for hire
The authors of a joint work are co-owners of the copyright in the work, unless there is an agreement to the contrary
Copyright 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
Works published on or after Jan
1, 1978, are subject to protection under the copyright statute if, on the date of first publication, one or more of the authors is a national or domiciliary of the U.S
, or is a national, domiciliary, or sovereign authority of a foreign nation that is a party to a copyright treaty to which the U.S
is also a party, or is a stateless person, regardless of domicile, or if the work is first published either in the U.S
or in a foreign nation that on the date of first publication is a party to the Universal Copyright Convention or the Berne Union
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