United States Copyright Office

PDFUS | Copyright is a form of protection provided by the laws of the United States (title 17, U. S. Code) to the authors of “original works of authorship,” including literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, and certain other intellectual works. This protection is available to both published and unpublished works. Section 106 of the 1976 Copyright Act generally gives the owner of copyright the exclusive right to do and to authorize others to do the following:
• reproduce the work in copies or phonorecords
• prepare derivative works based upon the work
• distribute copies or phonorecords of the work to the public by sale or other
transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending
• perform the work publicly, in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and
choreographic works, pantomimes, and motion pictures and other audiovisual
works
• display the work publicly, in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and
choreographic works, pantomimes, and pictorial, graphic, or sculptural
works, including the individual images of a motion picture or other
audiovisual
work
• perform the work publicly (in the case of sound recordings*) by means of
a digital audio transmission|

Contents
1. What is Copyright?
2. Who Can Claim Copyright?
3. Copyright and National Origin of the Work
4. What Works Are Protected?
5. What is Not Protected by Copyright?
6. Publication
7. Notice of Copyright
8. How Long Copyright Protection Endures
9. Transfer of Copyright
10. International Copyright Protection
11. Copyright Registration
12. Registration Procedures
13. Effective Date of Registration
14. Corrections and Amplifications of Existing Registrations
15. Mandatory Deposit for Works Published in the United States
16. Use of Mandatory Deposit to Satisfy Registration Requirements
17. Who May File an Application Form?
18. Fees
19. Search of Copyright Office Records
20 For Further Information… (plus d'informations)

PDFUS | Chapter 10--Circular 92 | When advertising, posting a digital recording of the property may have copyright issues with the digital rendering software in that an advertiser may need to seek permission prior to posting and utilizing the rendering software | Policy from the US Copyright Office Chapter 10 |

100 Definitions
Subchapter B - Copying Controls
1002 Incorporation of Copying Controls
Subchapter C - Royalty Payments
1004 Royalty Payments
1005 Deposit of Royalty Payments and Deduction of Expenses
1006 Entitlement to Royalty Payments
1007 Procedures for Distributing Royalty Payments
Subchapter D - Prohibition on Certain Infringement Actions, Remedies, and Arbitration
1008 Prohibition on Certain Infringement Actions
1009 Civil Remedies
1010 Determination of Certain Disputes |

1010

(a) Scope of Determination.—Before the date of first distribution in the United States of a digital audio recording device or a digital audio interface device, any party manufacturing, importing, or distributing such device, and any interested copyright party may mutually agree to petition the Copyright Royalty Judges to determine whether such device is subject to section 1002, or the basis on which royalty
payments for such device are to be made under section 1003.

(e) Judicial Review.—Any determination of the Copyright Royalty Judges under subsection (d) may be appealed, by a party to the proceeding, in accordance with section 803(d) of this title. The pendency of an appeal under this subsection shall not stay the determination of the Copyright Royalty Judges. If the court modifies the determination of the Copyright Royalty Judges, the court shall have jurisdiction to
enter its own decision in accordance with its final judgment. The court may further vacate the determination of the Copyright Royalty Judges and remand the case for proceedings as provided in this section.… (plus d'informations)

Copyright is a form of protection provided by the laws of the United Statesto the authors of “original works of authorship” that are fixed in a tangible form of expression. An original work of authorship is a work that is independently created by a human author and possesses at least some minimal degree of creativity. A work is “fixed” when it is captured (either by or under the authority of an author) in a sufficiently permanent medium such that the work can be perceived, reproduced, or communicated for more than a short time. Copyright protection in the United States exists automatically from the moment the original work of authorship is fixed.… (plus d'informations)