How Copyright Works: The Six Exclusive Rights of Copyright Law | Berklee Online

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Amazing and informative content. This is helping me a ton with entertainment law.

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[@milliehummel]

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[@Immaculate_101]

Thank you very much I appreciate this can you do a video on what are exclusive copyrights when buying a instrumental and how artists can understand it And use it for their advantage thank you

[@kellcoleStyleEnt]

You have to buy the master to the beat from the producer if they willing to sell it out right then y’all do a contract

[@HOLLASOUNDS]

Do these right apply to UK?

[@antovald20]

What about a character? Is a character that you created protected by copyright or just the story???

[@photios4779]

In the U.S., a court case (Towle v. D.C. Comics) requiring an answer to that very question occurred a few years ago involving the Batmobile (of Batman fame). The Ninth Circuit court created a three-part test "for determining whether a character in a comic book, television program, or motion picture is entitled to copyright protection." The three parts are: Does the character have (1) “physical as well as conceptual qualities,” (2) “is sufficiently delineated to be recognizable as the same character whenever it appears,” and (3) is “especially distinctive and contains some unique elements of expression.” The Supreme Court declined to hear this case, so technically this three-part test only applies within the Ninth Circuit, but it's still an important precedent that suggests characters do have a degree of copyright protection that is independent of the stories in which they are featured.

[@Kandhaqprotector]

@@photios4779 no that case is talking about mimicking the expression of the character not the actual character itself. D.C. beat mark towle because mark towle had actually mimicked the Intangible expression of the bat mobile. Copyright only protect drawings,written descriptions, depictions and pictures. They don’t protect anything else. Characters are not works of art. Their expression is a work of art. In the the US a court case (D.C. vs Bruns Inc) answered the question of whether or not a character can be copyrighted. the Second Circuit in which the court held that the archetype of a comic book hero, in this case a cape-wearing benevolent-Hercules figure (Superman), is an idea, which the copyright in the comic strips does not protect against copying; only the specific details of the strips, their particular expression, enjoy legal protection.

[@antovald20]

@@Kandhaqprotector In other words yes Superman is protected by Copyright law, and nobody can use that character. You can use some of the ideas to create your own, but it can't mirror anything that is protected by Copyright and Trademark. Yeah I know. Your the one that doesn't understand at all. Once Superman enters into the Public Domain then his free to use. Just mind the existing Trademarks

[@antovald20]

@@Kandhaqprotector I even gave a link above that shows how to Copyright your character. So yes you have been wrong all your life

[@antovald20]

@@photios4779 Thank you and ignore the other guy. He clearly doesn't understand Copyright or even Trademark

[@michoudu88]

Hello, great informations! However, I have a question. If a Dj plays a song in a club, he is performing publicly but he doesnt pay anything because he already purchased the song. Can he play it as much as he want? or the club has to pay (monthly?) to the performance rights organization you talked about? or is there a certain tolerance? Thanks :)

[@photios4779]

Let's say the DJ buys an album of songs. That gives him a "private performance right" to listen to those songs himself along with family members or friends in a "private" setting like a home. But buying that album doesn't give the DJ the "public performance right" to play that music in a public space like a nightclub, dance hall, restaurant, outdoor festival, etc. This right must be obtained separately, either by obtaining permission directly from the copyright owner (or more commonly) by obtaining a performance license from a collective rights organization like ASCAP or BMI that handles licensing on behalf of the big record labels.

[@gregshanor669]

How does this work for an Ebook content in writing a Ebook

[@photios4779]

It should work the same way as it does with traditional printed books. Only the format is different, but the basic copyright principles are the same.

[@abdellatifb]

what about Synchronization ?

[@brianhannah7125]

How does it work when you are a music media company promoting their music and get the permission to use their music? It is stopping us monetizing helping artist promote their music and videos

[@nalamramanjanayulu4886]

Will I get a copyright strike when I copy a bit music in my own song and release it to all platforms like iTunes, Spotify, etc. ??

[@photios4779]

Possibly. The more of someone else's song you copy, the greater the likelihood that your copying will be detected (and frowned upon by the copyright owner). If you use a short few second "sample" of another song, then perhaps nobody will notice, especially if you modify it to make it nearly unrecognizable. But I know of a few KZbinrs who got copyright claims over short samples that are no more than a few seconds. One might think that such a small degree of copying wouldn't have been noticed. Nevertheless, somehow the big record labels did, so bear that in mind. So you do need to be careful with ANY degree of copying, and perhaps consider not doing it at all. Anyways, sampling is kind of a legal can of worms. I'm personally of the opinion that it could be considered "transformative" and hence "fair use", but that's a kind of argument that can only be tested out in court and few artists have the money to go up against a big record label and their teams of lawyers in a courtroom setting. You may be interested in another video on this channel featuring the same copyright expert in the current video. Look up "How Copyright Works: How Sampling is Different from Stealing | Berklee Online" and it should help answer any questions you may have about copying and sampling.

[@RockG.o.d]

just a quick question about copyright. just say I want to make a movie about a gambler (pretend I have never heard the song before). Do I have to get permission first from Don Schlitz to write that movie without hearing the song?

[@johnalver]

If a person can copyright lyrics then companies can do it too and they have the money to copyright every combination of anything!

[@photios4779]

That's a concern I would have if works created by artificial intelligence are allowed to be copyrighted. Artificial intelligence software can churn out literally millions of poems, lyrics or melodies every day, much faster than any human creators ever could. Currently under American law, the creator must be a human being to receive copyright protection for their works, but this topic is under active discussion in the legal community and it's possible the law may change in the future. Musician Adam Neely made a video called "Every Melody Has Been Copyrighted (and they're all on this hard drive)" which highlights the kinds of potential issues that could arise if artificial intelligence could create copyrightable melodies.