Compliance - U.S. Copyright Law, October 2007
Summary:
Copyright protection is afforded to any work that is in a form that can be seen, reproduced, or otherwise communicated. Some examples:
- literary works
- musical works
- dramatic works
- pictoral, graphic, and sculptural works
- motion pictures
- sound recording
- architectural works
An owner of a copyright has exclusive rights to use or authorize:
- reproduction of the work
- to prepare derivitive works
- to distribute copies or the work to the public by sale, rental, lease, lending, or transfer of ownership
- to perform work publically
- to display the work publically
- for sound recordings, to perform publically via digital audio transmission
There are several specific areas of copyright law that apply to the UC community:
- Music and Movies. Click here for more information
- Plagiarism. The University's policy can be found on the UC Library site, and the Student Code of Conduct can be found here.
- Faculty, Staff and Student Intellectual Property issues - IPO office at UC and UC Libraries Copyright Policy here .
For more information
- UC Information on Copyright Infringement
- Links page to other Universities copyright information web pages and tuturials