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

• 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, visit:

UC Information on Copyright Infringement