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Tagged with international copyright
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Are works created by US government employees in the performance of their duties treated as public domain outside the US?
Copyright protection under this title is not available for any work of the United States Government, but the United States Government is not precluded from receiving and holding copyrights transferred ...
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Can a person be held liable for copyright infringement for sharing a meme on social media?
This has been a topic of debate in recent years, as memes often include images or videos that are copyrighted. Some argue that sharing a meme constitutes fair use, as it is typically used for comedic ...
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Is it ever legally beneficial for a third party to use symbols indicating intellectual property (©, ℗, ®, ™, ℠)?
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This question on Academia SE asks whether one should append a trademark symbol to trademarked software in academical writing, e.g. “Mathematica®”. In the answers and comments (e.g., here), ...
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Regarding "Right to be Forgotten", what's the definition of a "search engine"?
§§ — The decision by Europe's highest court allows people living in Europe to ask for links to "inadequate, irrelevant or no longer relevant" material to be removed from search results,...
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How important is the © symbol in copyright notices?
Many years ago, probably some time around 1990, a lawyer was sent around my employer (in the UK) to brief all the programmers about the need to include a proper copyright notice at the top of every ...
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Is there a legal reason for why song identification apps can't [won't] identify some foreign music?
This question in particular concerns using SoundHound/Shazam/MusixMatch or other commercial song identification apps in the United States to attempt to identify Japanese songs, but this question is ...
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Is the Scarborough Fair Melody Really in the Public Domain?
According to Wikimedia Commons:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scarborough-Fair-Melody.png
the melody to the tune Scarborough Fair (which had been popularized in the 1960s by Simon and ...
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is it legal to monetize a translation of a foreign song
Suppose I find a copyright-protected song that has not been released in English. Could I release and monetize an English translation/interpretation of this song?
Is it possible to copyright my ...
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Is it legal to copy the KJV?
If I understand correctly, the King James Version of the Bible is copyrighted in the UK but nowhere else. I live in the US. If I upload a copy of it to my Web site (which is hosted in the US), is that ...
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Is an image published in a book in Australia in 1925 public domain in the US?
I want to use an art image that was published in Australia in 1925 and publish it in the US.
Australian copyright law states that the image is protected for 70 years after the artist's death, who died ...
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Can a work copyrighted in the USA enter the public domain sooner in another country?
The duration of copyright in the US is the lifetime of the author plus 60 years. But in Uruguay it is life plus 50 years.
Does that mean the work is in the public domain in Uruguay after 50 years?
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What is the copyright status, in the US, of the old USSR textbooks?
The textbooks published in the USSR had their copyright listed as "The Ministry of Education of the USSR." I am not interested in the "author rights." I am only interested in the ...
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Who owns the work created on freelance platforms like Fiverr?
Imagine this scenario: I go on Fiverr and hire an artist to create a piece of artwork for me. Everything went well, the artist created the piece, I'm happy with it and I paid for it.
Now, who owns the ...
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How does multinational criminal copyright infringement get settled?
Let's say,
The plaintiff, lives in the UK and published a literary work (e.g. A Book)
The defendant, a corporation headquartered in the US, wilfully infringing plaintiff's copyright worldwide.
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Are there any countries without copyright?
Are there any countries that do not recognize any form of copyright, and you could legally (for example) strip the DRM from a just-released movie and share it online?
If so, what happens if I (a US ...
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