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Confirm or refute these statements. Begin with a short answer, e.g. ‘Yes, it is/has/does, etc.’ or ‘No, it isn’t/hasn’t/doesn't, etc.’ and add one sentence to prove your point.
1 It is not against the law to steal other people’s ideas.
2 Copyright is an automatic right.
3 Moral rights may belong to the owner of the copyright.
4 The copyright holder gets a monopoly over his work
5 The copying of other people’s works is never allowed.
6 Infringing copyright is not a criminal offence.
4. ‘Work’ or ‘a work’? Lexis
a) Read the example and complete the rule with the words ‘countable’ and ‘uncountable’.
‘Copyright protects a work of literature, drama, music or art that has been recorded in some form, but there is clearly work worthy of protection in any live performance, too.’
Rule. When the word ‘work’ denotes something such as a painting or a play or a piece of music
produced by a creative artist, it is a/n______________________ noun; when it means time and
effort you spend on doing or achieving something, it is a/n_________________________ noun.
b) Write out of Text 1 four examples illustrating the two uses of the word ‘work’.
5. Subsistence of copyright Law
Read the examples and say whether or not the following would constitute a literary, dramatic, artistic or musical work meriting copyright protection. Prove your point.
1. The title of F. Coppola’s film ‘Apocalypse Now’.
2. Instructions on the packaging for hair-remover cream.
3. Suggestions made by a director of a play to changes in the script and how it would be
performed on the stage.
4. Handouts prepared by a college tutor.
5. A recorded piece of ‘music’ by an author John Cage called 4'33", which is simply silence.
6. A very simple drawing of earphones in an English language textbook to indicate a listening comprehension task.
7. A published collection of photographs showing dishes of French cuisine.
8. A knitting pattern for an ordinary sweater.
6. Collocations with ‘copyright’ Lexis
The words ‘copyright’ and ‘copyright protection’ can collocate with any of the verbs below and be used in the following patterns. Choose two collocations or patterns from each group and write six sentences to illustrate their meaning.
to claim, to own copyright in a work; to breach, to infringe copyright
to provide, to grant copyright protection; to exclude from copyright protection; to oust copyright in a work
* * *
the work is protected by copyright; the work is not copyright;
the work enjoys, merits, attracts copyright protection
the work is out of copyright; the work is still in copyright
* * *
copyright protects, gives a monopoly, subsists in..., arises, requires
copyright in the work lasts for...; copyright protection is reduced to... years
7. Copyright infringement Law
Examine the following examples and decide whether the person or organisation in question has infringed copyright. Prove your point.
1. An academic wants to reproduce in his article a table of statistics from somebody else's work. He writes to the publisher asking for permission, but before he receives a reply, the article is published.
2. a) A banker commissions an artist to make a portrait of the banker’s daughter. The finished portrait is so good that before handing it over to the banker, and without asking for permission, the artist exhibits it in the local gallery. b) The banker exhibits this same portrait without the artist’s permission.
3. A composer writes a song whose refrain repeats the twelve bars of a popular news programme jingle.
4. A university lecturer publishes a book which includes material both from his public lectures and lectures read at university.
5. A photographer recreates a specific arrangement in an existing photograph (which is a copyright work) and makes a new photograph of his own.
6. A translator uses a French (licensed) translation of an English novel to translate the work into German.
7. An author recites a poem, previously unrecorded in any permanent form, at a party but never publishes it. A poet present among the guests has a very good memory; two years later he publishes the poem as his own creation.
8. 'Fair dealing' Law
Examine the following examples and decide whether the act in question constitutes ‘fair dealing’. Prove your point.
1. A journalist writes and publishes a critical book about a popular sect. The book contains a substantial number of extracts from the sect leader’s works and the sect’s publications.
2. A television company uses (without permission) a number of photographs of famous personalities in a programme devoted to the review and criticism of celebrity journalism.
3. A newspaper wants to advertise on television its new free women’s supplement. The TV ad compares the new supplement with a popular women’s magazine and includes the cover of that magazine.
4. A nurse in a local hospital often works afternoon shifts. Not wishing to miss her favourite serial, she records it.
5. A researcher working for a bio-engineering company regularly photocopies articles related to his project from scientific journals.
6. A large chain of department-stores regularly circulates and distributes to its staff cuttings of articles of interest to the store without a licence from the Newspaper Licensing Agency.
7. A freelance journalist is working privately on a series of articles concerning the activities of a left-wing party and compiles a file containing photocopies of outside copyright material. He has accepted an offer from an international magazine to sell the articles.
9. Copyright Note-taking
Make one-page Notes or a Mind Map of Text 1. Be ready to talk in front of the class using your notes.
Text 2: Design, Performance and Database Rights
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