音乐家:避免四方的法律错误
米塔·卡里曼(Mita Carriman)曾经是一位独立音乐家,现在是娱乐,知识产权和小型企业法领域的律师,他为独立音乐家提供了一些值得注意的,刻薄的建议,破坏了四重奏的音乐定律神话,这些谬论可能伤害作曲家和表演者,如果他们依靠他们。她试图揭穿的四个神话包括:神话:“穷人”的版权,幻想通过电子邮件或蜗牛邮寄自己的作品副本来获得法律保护的幻想。 Carriman指出,原创作品一旦获得版权即被触发“fixed” in a tangible medium of expression, such as by recording an original song 上 a CD or MP3 or by the act of writing down the lyrics and music. She underscores that those who create content must protect their works formally through U.S. copyright 法 by registering them with the Library of Congress; copyright owners then can avail themselves of remedies, with 法suits for damages of $750 to $150,000.00, plus attorney fees per act of infringement via statutory damages. A leading case 上 how rights get 固定? Midway Manufacturing Co. v. Artic 国际化 Inc., in which a court held that aspects of a video arcade game could be copyrighted though its images appearing 上 a screen were transient. Myth: “50 second… 5 second … 8 bar … or 1 bar,”一些音乐家认为允许合法采样的错误观念...
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