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Every instance of a copyrighted work must observe copyright notice formalities for the work to maintain copyright, even if the work appears multiple times on the same sheet of paper. Every copy of a copyrighted painting must bear the notice for the painting to maintain copyright. G. & C. Merriam Co. v. Syndicate Pub. Co. 237 U.S. 618: 1915: 9–0
Foreign works published before 1978 did not establish US copyright until published in the US or with US copyright formalities. Applied Info. Mgmt., Inc, v. Icart: 976 Supp. 149, 155: E.D.N.Y. 1997 The sale of software is the sale of a good. Case was dropped. Itar-Tass Russian News Agency v. Russian Kurier, Inc. 153 F.3d 82: 2d Cir. 1998
In 2025, the works unbound from copyright cap off the 1920s with literature, characters and more from 1929 entering the public domain.
The U.S. government asserts that it can still hold the copyright to those works in other countries. [3] [4] Publication of an otherwise protected work by the U.S. government does not put that work in the public domain.
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Accordingly, copyright protection did not prevail. The holding in Warner Bros. case came to be known as the Sam Spade Test; this approach does not allow for copyright protection if the character is a “mere chessman in the game of storytelling.” On the other hand, if the character is central to the story, then it will be copyrightable.
"Innocent" is a technical term. In particular, if the work carries a copyright notice, the infringer cannot claim innocence. [96] In case of "willful infringement" (again, "willful" is a technical term), statutory damages can be no more than $150,000 for an effective range of $750 to $150,000 per work. [94] Damages in copyright cases can be ...
Corrections and clarifications: This story has been updated to clarify the legal action taken by ByteDance on Dec. 9.The company has since asked the Supreme Court to temporarily block a law that ...