Principles of Copyright Law – Cases and Materials
39 I. COPYRIGHT: CASES AND MATERIALS Although the English word list may be copyrightable, ... it clearly is not copyrightable by ...
MR JUSTICE PARK: [T]he fact that the original story of the Cyclops was written by Homer (whoever he may have been) and was presu ...
41 I. COPYRIGHT: CASES AND MATERIALS language which can be understood by the readers can be original: so the manner in which the ...
creativity is extremely low; even a slight amount will suffice. The vast majority of works make the grade quite easily, as they ...
43 I. COPYRIGHT: CASES AND MATERIALS The statute identifies three distinct elements, and requires each to be met for a work to q ...
NOTE: The same test was applied in Canada for compilations, to reach a similar result: Tele-Direct (Publications) Inc. v. Americ ...
45 I. COPYRIGHT: CASES AND MATERIALS point in enforcing secrecy on something that is no longer secret. But what is the copyright ...
EXAMPLE 2: Suppose a State forbids publication of a work before it receives approval from the state’s censors. Does this affect ...
47 I. COPYRIGHT: CASES AND MATERIALS EXAMPLE 3: Suppose a government agency produces a work in the course of its operation, say, ...
cases. But that view is not held in the United States, Canada and other jurisdictions. As was said in Baron v. Hooda, (1987) 17 ...
49 I. COPYRIGHT: CASES AND MATERIALS literary merit. Many works that are today held in high regard have been adjudged obscene in ...
In my view, two principles based on public policy are applicable to the present case. Those principles are, first, that there is ...
51 I. COPYRIGHT: CASES AND MATERIALS occasion for some two hours. Al Fayed repeated the claim on several occasions. Shortly afte ...
The circumstances where it is against the policy of the law to use the court’s procedure to enforce copyright are, I suspect, no ...
53 I. COPYRIGHT: CASES AND MATERIALS (3) Translations, adaptations, arrangements of music and other alterations of a literary or ...
The function, quality, subject-matter and popularity of a work are irrelevant to its copyrightability In Walter v. Lane [1900] ...
55 I. COPYRIGHT: CASES AND MATERIALS Artistic values cannot be weighted, for no universally acceptable unit or artistic weight h ...
moment, whatever may be our hopes for a change. That these pictures had their worth and their success is sufficiently shown by t ...
57 I. COPYRIGHT: CASES AND MATERIALS Under the [Literary Copyright] Act of 1842, which protected “books,” many things which had ...
The following material illustrates some of the more difficult cases. Short phrases Exxon Corp. v. Exxon Insurance Consultants ...
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