Copyright exclusive rights

Copyright License. In very simple terms, a copyright owner has the exclusive right to (/) reproduce, 2) prepare derivative works of, if)... 

The Copyright Act grants copyright owners five exclusive rights (15). These rights include not only the right to do specified actions, but also to authorize them. 

The Right of Public Distribution. The exclusive right to reproduce the copyrighted work also entails pubHc distribution of copies, by sale or other transfer of ownership. This right, too, is the copyright owner s. 

The Right of Public Performance. Certain types of works, for example, musical compositions, plays, and choreographic works, are meant to be performed. PubHc performance of these works is the copyright owner s exclusive right. 

Anyone who violates the exclusive rights of a copyright owner is Hable for infringement in a lawsuit brought in federal court. There is a three-year statute of limitations on copyright infringement actions. 

Copyrights afford in most cases an exclusive right to control distribution, reproduction, adaptation, pubHc performance, and pubHc display of Hterary or artistic works. They arise automatically upon creation of an eligible work, but the exercise of such rights is governed exclusively by federal statute. 

Copyright 1997. Exclusive rights by The McGraw-HiU Companies, Inc., for manufacture and export. This book cannot be re-exported from the countiy to which it is consigned by McGraw-Hill. The International Edition is not available in North America. 

The United States Federal Government retains a nonexclusive, nontransferable, irrevocable, royalty-free license to exercise or have exercised for or on behalf of the United States throughout the world all the exclusive rights provided by copyright. Such license does not include the right to see copies or photocopies of this work. 

The copyright owner can be described as controlling a bundle of stated rights. The copyright owner (whether an individual, a corporation, or a publisher) retains certain exclusive rights in the work. The bundle of rights includes... 

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