Principles of Copyright Law – Cases and Materials

5. ORIGINALITY

• Originality must be judged by looking at the work as a whole,
  not merely at its component parts


• There may be originality in creating a derivative work from
  another work


• A translation may be original


• An adaptation may be original


• A compilation involving original selection or arrangement may
  have copyright

6. WORKS THAT VIOLATE PUBLIC ORDER


7. PROTECTED WORKS

• General Scope


• The function, quality, subject-matter and popularity of
  a work are irrelevant to its copyrightability


• Simplicity is irrelevant to copyrightability


• Literary work


• Short phrases


• Speech and interviews


• Blank forms


• Dramatic work


• Musical work


• Artistic work


• Sculpture


• Title of a Work


• Derivative works


• An unauthorized derivative work may be protected by copyright


• Unclassified works may be protected


• May copyright overlap with patents, trademarks or other
  intellectual property rights?

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