Restating Copyright Law's Originality Requirement

The Originality Standard for Literary Works under U.S. Copyright Law

Originality Requirements under U.S. and E.U. Copyright Law

Understanding how copyright law applies to software is essential to making informed decisions about how to develop and distribute code. The first step of this analysis is to consider whether the code in question is in fact copyrightable. This document discusses the requirements for software to be considered within the scope of copyright under U.S. law. Because open source and free software deve...

originality: a requirement for the creation of work

copyright is characterized by the concept of originality. despite its very importance in the formation of a work with its effects and consequences and despite some research previously done in this area, yet, further study seems necessary. one of the reasons for this is, perhaps, the relative and subjective concept of originality and its flexible nature. this research attempts to define the idea...

Too Much to Carry? Copyright Laws in the Electronic Environment

Digitization of information, the rise of the World Wide Web, and the development of new means for information creation, production and dissemination place new strains on the legal infrastructure of copyright laws in the United States. Review of the historical trends in copyright protection, focusing on changing socio-technical relations in the information production environment, uncovers five c...

Laws against the circumvention of copyright technological protection

The problems that the great developments in digital information and the Internet are creating for copyright may be partly solved through new legislation as well as through the implementation of technological systems (generically known as ECMS) that help protect it. These two approaches ± legal and technological ± interact, as the new copyright laws protect these electronic measures through the ...