Legal Concepts Worksheet
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MBA 560
Legal Concepts Worksheet
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Intellectual property
Intellectual property is divided into two categories: Industrial property, which includes inventions, trademarks, industrial designs, and geographic indications of source; and copyright, which includes literary and artistic works such as novels, poems and plays, films, musical works, artistic works such as drawings, paintings, photographs, and sculptures, and architectural designs.
"Property is a legal right to exclude, not a physical thing, and the object of a property copyright includes the reproduction of music for commercial profit. The market resource is
diminished for the copyright owner when file sharers misappropriate music," (Reed, Shedd, Morehead, & Corley, 2005, p.40).
Copyright law
The Copyright Act of 1976 protects against the illegal distribution of music and videos.
"Copyright protection arises automatically when an original work of authorship is fixed in a tangible medium of expression. Registration with the Copyright Office is optional,"(Radcliffe & Brinson, 1999).
Copyright protection
President Clinton signed no Electronic Theft (NET) Act on December 16, 1997. This law was written to provide copyright enforcement, especially against kids.
"The copyright allows the holder to control the reproduction, display, distribution, ...