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An incomplete copyright notice. Because multiple parties were involved in the production of The New 3 Stooges, failure to specify the claimant thrust the series into the public domain. A copyright notice may still be used as a deterrent against infringement, or as a notice that the owner intends on holding their claim to copyright. [3]
In case of "innocent infringement", the amount may be reduced to a sum "not less than $200" for an effective range of $200 to $30,000 per work. "Innocent" is a technical term. In particular, if the work carries a copyright notice, the infringer cannot claim innocence. [96]
For example, an image with no copyright status on its file page and published elsewhere with a copyright notice should be listed for deletion. Fair-use/Non-free images Main page: Wikipedia:Non-free content
The following outline is provided as an overview and topical guide to intellectual property: . Intellectual property refers to intangible assets such as musical, literary, and artistic works; discoveries and inventions; and words, phrases, symbols, and designs.
An example of a copyright waiver is the following: The author of this work hereby waives all claim of copyright (economic and moral) in this work and immediately places it in the public domain; it may be used, distorted or destroyed in any manner whatsoever without further attribution or notice to the creator.
This may mean for example that a copy of a book that does not infringe copyright in the country where it was printed does infringe copyright in a country into which it is imported for retailing. The first-sale doctrine is known as exhaustion of rights in other countries and is a principle which also applies, though somewhat differently, to ...
Miley Cyrus’s single ‘Flowers’ was said to be inspired by ‘When I Was Your Man’ after her then-husband, Liam Hemsworth, reportedly dedicated the song to her (Getty Images for Disney)
Authors who failed to comply with some particular aspect of a formality—for instance, placing the notice in the wrong place or in the wrong order, or failing to renew a copyright in a timely fashion—would lose their copyright.