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2. Copyright law of the United States - Wikipedia

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   The Feist case denied copyright protection to a "white pages" phone book (a compilation of telephone numbers, listed alphabetically). In making this ruling, the Supreme Court rejected the "sweat of the brow" doctrine. That is, copyright protection requires creativity, and no amount of hard work ("sweat of the brow") can transform a non-creative ...

3. Public domain - Wikipedia

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   A public-domain book is a book with no copyright, a book that was created without a license, or a book where its copyrights expired [18] or have been forfeited. [clarification needed] [19] In most countries the term of protection of copyright expires on the first day of January, 70 years after the death of the latest living author. The longest ...

4. Copyright protection for fictional characters - Wikipedia

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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.

5. List of films in the public domain in the United States

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   In some cases, a film's copyright has lapsed because of non-renewal while the underlying literary or dramatic source is still protected by copyright; for example, the film His Girl Friday (1940) became a public domain film in 1969 because it was not renewed, but it is based on the 1928 play The Front Page; as a practical matter, the film could ...

6. Baen Free Library - Wikipedia

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   The Baen Free Library is a digital library of the science fiction and fantasy publishing house Baen Books where 61 e-books as of June 2016 (112 e-books as of December 2008) can be downloaded free in a number of formats, without copy protection. [1]

7. Copyright - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

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9. Copyright status of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and related ...

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   The Wizard of the Emerald City is an adaptation of The Wizard of Oz, borrowing liberally from the original book without even crediting Baum. The subsequent four books were published between 1963 and 1970, and the last one – The Secret of the Deserted Castle – was published in 1982.