The US Copyright Office defines Copyright as:
"(a) Copyright protection subsists, in accordance with this title, in original works of authorship fixed in any tangible medium of expression, now known or later developed, from which they can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated, either directly or with the aid of a machine or device. Works of authorship include the following categories:
(1) literary works;
(2) musical works, including any accompanying words;
(3) dramatic works, including any accompanying music;
(4) pantomimes and choreographic works;
(5) pictorial, graphic, and sculptural works;
(6) motion pictures and other audiovisual works;
(7) sound recordings; and
(8) architectural works.
(b) In no case does copyright protection for an original work of authorship extend to any idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery, regardless of the form in which it is described, explained, illustrated, or embodied in such work."(i)
Copyright is usually a grouping of rights, which gives authors the exclusive right to do and to authorize others to do the following:
"(1) to reproduce the copyrighted work in copies or phonorecords;
(2) to prepare derivative works based upon the copyrighted work;
(3) to distribute copies or phonorecords of the copyrighted work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending;
(4) in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and motion pictures and other audiovisual works, to perform the copyrighted work publicly;
(5) 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, to display the copyrighted work publicly; and
(6) in the case of sound recordings, to perform the copyrighted work publicly by means of a digital audio transmission." (ii)
Copyright is transferrable only in writing.
Copyright lasts from the time of a work’s creation, during the life of the author, plus 70 years after the author’s death. Explore the "Copyright Term and Public Domain in the United States" guide developed by Cornell University to learn more about how to determine copyright status of works: https://copyright.cornell.edu/resources/docs/copyright2014.pdf
Sources:
(i). US Copyright Office: http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html
(ii) US Copyright Office: http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#106
Reused from LMU's Scholarly Publishing LibGuide by Jessea Young
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