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  2. Scènes à faire - Wikipedia

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    Cain claimed a scene in his book where two protagonists take refuge from a storm in a church had been copied in a scene depicting the same situation in the movie. Judge Leon Rene Yankwich ruled that there was no resemblance between the scenes in the book and the film other than incidental "scènes à faire", or natural similarities due to the ...

  3. Fair use - Wikipedia

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    American University's infojustice.org published a compilation of portions of over 40 nations' laws that explicitly mention fair use or fair dealing, and asserts that some of the fair dealing laws, such as Canada's, have evolved (such as through judicial precedents) to be quite close to those of the United States.

  4. Copyright Act of 1976 - Wikipedia

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    Additionally, the fair use defense to copyright infringement was codified for the first time in section 107 of the 1976 Act. Fair use was not a novel proposition in 1976, however, as federal courts had been using a common law form of the doctrine since the 1840s (an English version of fair use appeared much earlier). The Act codified this ...

  5. A Raisin in the Sun - Wikipedia

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    Scene from the play. Ruby Dee as Ruth, Claudia McNeil as Lena, Glynn Turman as Travis, Sidney Poitier as Walter, and John Fiedler as Karl Lindner. With a cast in which all but one character is black, A Raisin in the Sun was considered a risky investment, and it took eighteen months for producer Philip Rose to raise enough money to launch it ...

  6. The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window - Wikipedia

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    Iris's sister, Mavis Parodus, is a source of contempt for Sidney because she is "the Mother of MiddleClass itself" and her prejudices. The interaction between Mavis and Sidney in Act 1, Scene 2 show Sidney's contempt for Mavis, [11] and her anti-African-American prejudice and anti-Semitism. When Mavis leaves Sidney's apartment, she makes ...

  7. FAIR USE Act - Wikipedia

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    The FAIR USE Act is Boucher’s third attempt at reforming provisions within the DMCA, the previous two being the Digital Media Consumers' Rights Acts (DMCRA) of 2003 and 2005. [3] Previously, Boucher co-sponsored the “ Benefit Authors without Limiting Advancement or Net Consumer Expectations ,” or “BALANCE Act,” which sought to amend ...

  8. The Escape; or, A Leap for Freedom - Wikipedia

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    Act 1, Scene 3: A Room in the Slave Quarters Act 1, Scene 4: Dining Room of Dr. Gaines and Mrs. Gaines Act 2, Scene 1: The Parlor of Dr. Gaines Act 2, Scene 2: View in Front of the Great House Act 2, Scene 3: A Sitting-Room in the house of Dr. Gaines Act 3, Scene 1: Sitting-Room Act 3, Scene 2: The Kitchen- Slaves at Work Act 3, Scene 3 ...

  9. Derivative work - Wikipedia

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    The court held that such a use was fair use: "We conclude that where disassembly is the only way to gain access to the ideas and functional elements embodied in a copyrighted computer program and where there is a legitimate reason for seeking such access, disassembly is a fair use of the copyrighted work, as a matter of law."