...advantageous than copyright. According to US Copyright Law (tide 17, passed 1976), copyright applies to "original works of authorship fixed in any tangible...developed, from which they can be perceived, reproduced, or odierwise communicated, either directly or with die aid of a machine or device" (Copyright Law of the...

...much more general idea of fixating. According to the 1976 Copyright Act, the object of copyright law "subsists, in accordance with this title, in original...otherwise communicated, either directly or with the aid of a device."™ Virtually any physical object or event can be the fixation of a work as long as it can...

...products, although some commentators have argued to the contrary." [footnote omitted]). 41. 17 USC 102 ("Copyright protection subsists, in accordance with...medium of expression, now known or later developed."). 42. See Ashley Packard, Copyright or Copy Wrong: An Analysis of University Claims to Faculty Work,...

...that an original work need not be registered in order to enjoy copyright protection. See 17 USC §102 ("Copyright protection subsists, in accordance with this title, in original works of authorship . . ."); Montgomery v. Noga, 168 F3d 1282, 1288 (llth Cir 1999) ("For original computer programs and...

...structured the copyright law to maintain this balance. Thus, while "copyright protection subsists ... in original works of authorship fixed in any tangible medium of expression," copyright does not "extend to any idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle,...

...Copyright Under the present copyright law, copyright exists in original works of authorship created and fixed in any tangible medium of expression, now known...reproduced, or otherwise communicated, either directly, or indirectly with the aid of a machine or device. In other words, copyright is an incident of creative...

...for infringement of the patent. 1 7 USC § 1 02(a) provides that "Copyright protection subsists . . . in original works of authorship fixed in any tangible medium of expression . . . from which they can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated." Works of authorship...

...media.288 §2.13 FIXATION To be a proper subject for copyright protection, a work of authorship must be "fixed in any tangible medium of expression now known or later developed, and from which [it] can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated, either directly or with...

...has been fixed in any definite medium of expression now known or later to be developed, from which it can be perceived, reproduced or otherwise communicated either directly or with the aid of any machine or device. ownership of folklore. Generally, the problems that confront copyright protection...

...1976, as amended ten times between 1988 and 2005, is the foundation for a statutory scheme protecting original works of authorship fixed in any tangible medium of expression, now known or later developed.68 A copyright holder may exclusively do or authorize the following: 1 . to reproduce the...