enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Film rights - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_rights

    In US law, these rights belong to the holder of the copyright, who may sell (or "option") them to someone in the film industry—usually a producer or director, or sometimes a specialist broker of such properties—who will then try to gather industry professionals and secure the financial backing necessary to convert the property into a film ...

  3. Sony Corp. of America v. Universal City Studios, Inc. - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Corp._of_America_v...

    Many of the same points of law that were litigated in this case have been argued in digital copyright cases, particularly peer-to-peer lawsuits; for example, in A&M Records, Inc. v. Napster, Inc. in 2001, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a fair use "space shifting" argument raised as an analogy to the time-shifting argument that ...

  4. List of copyright case law - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_copyright_case_law

    Rights holders must consider fair use before issuing a takedown notice. If the notice is issued in bad faith, the rights holder could be held liable for misrepresentation. A.V. ex rel.Vanderhye v. iParadigms LLC: 562 F.3d 630: 4th Cir. 2009 Commercial online database of student papers for plagiarism detection purposes was fair use MDY Industries v.

  5. Payne Fund Studies - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payne_Fund_Studies

    Professor W.W. Charters was the research director of the Payne Fund Studies. He was the head of the Department of Education Research at The Ohio State University. Reverend William H. Short, who was the Director of the Motion Picture Research Council, was the person who came up with the idea for the Payne Fund Studies.

  6. List of scientific misconduct incidents - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scientific...

    A Lancet review on Handling of Scientific Misconduct in Scandinavian countries gave examples of policy definitions. In Denmark, scientific misconduct is defined as "intention[al] negligence leading to fabrication of the scientific message or a false credit or emphasis given to a scientist", and in Sweden as "intention[al] distortion of the ...

  7. The Shawshank Redemption at 30: How one of 1994’s ... - AOL

    www.aol.com/shawshank-redemption-30-one-1994...

    The film is so effective that you can almost taste that beer and feel the chill and condensation of the bottles. Prison breaker: Robbins in ‘The Shawshank Redemption’ (Shutterstock)

  8. Option (filmmaking) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Option_(filmmaking)

    In the film industry, an option agreement is a contract that "rents" the rights to a source material to a potential film producer. [1] It grants the film producer the exclusive option to purchase rights to the source material if they live up to the terms of the contract and make a film (or series) from it. This is known as optioning the source ...

  9. Rental Directive - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rental_Directive

    The Directive sets out the minimum rights which Member States must accord to performers, phonogram and film producers and broadcasting organizations (related rights), based closely on the provisions of the Rome Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organizations.