Andrew Johnson's List: OAA-Legal Case

• Copyright is a legal concept, enacted by most governments, giving the creator of an original work exclusive rights to it, usually for a limited time.
• Copyright came about with the invention of the printing press and with wider public literacy.
• Copyright may apply to a wide range of creative, intellectual, or artistic forms, or "works".
• Typically, a work must meet minimal standards of originality in order to qualify for copyright, and the copyright expires after a set period of time
• Copyright law recognises the right of an author based on whether the work actually is an original creation, rather than based on whether it is unique;
• . Once the term of a copyright has expired, the formerly copyrighted work enters the public domain and may be freely used or exploited by anyone.

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• The earliest recorded historical case-law on the right to copy comes from ancient Ireland.
• King Diarmait
• Mac Cerbhaill

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• US Copyright law is governed by the federal Copyright Act of 1976. The constitution explicitly grants Congress the power to create copyright law. Specifically, Congress has the powe
• Before the 1976 Copyright Act, copyright protection was provided by a dual system under both federal and state laws. Federal law provided "statutory copyright" and the laws of each state provided "common law copyright."
• With the 1976 Copyright Act, Congress abolished the dual federal-and-state copyright system, replacing it with a single federal copyright system. Federal preemption is codified at 17 U.S.C. § 301(a)
• Works created in or after 1978 are extended copyright protection for a term defined in 17 U.S.C. § 302. With the passage of the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, these works are granted copyright protection for a term ending 70 years after the death of the author.

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• It became Public Law number 94-553 on October 19, 1976 and went into effect on January 1, 1978.
• Before the 1976 Act, the last major revision to statutory copyright law in the United States occurred in 1909
• The Act was designed in part to address intellectual property questions raised by these new forms of communication

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• Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, 510 U.S. 569 (1994)^[1] was a United States Supreme Court copyright law case that established that a commercial parody can qualify as fair use.

• Acuff-Rose Music refused to grant the band a license but 2 Live Crew nonetheless produced and released the parody.

   
• The District Court granted summary judgment for 2 Live Crew, holding that their song was a parody that made fair use of the original song under § 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976
• remanded

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