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United States (Title 17, U.S. Code), copyright provides protection to the
authors of "original works of authorship intellectual works". This
protection is available to both published and unpublished works. Section 106
of the 1976 Copyright Act generally gives the owner of copyright the
exclusive right to do and to authorize others to do the following:
Make copies or otherwise
reproduce content
Create derivative works based on content
Distribute copies of content
Publicly share content
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violate any of the rights provided by the copyright law to the owner of
copyright. These rights, however, are not unlimited in scope. One
limitation is the doctrine of "fair use," which is given a statutory basis.
Also, the limitations take the form of a "compulsory license" under which
certain limited uses of copyrighted works are permitted upon payment of
specified royalties and compliance with statutory conditions.
Any or all of the
BridgeHands exclusive rights or any subdivision of
those rights may be transferred, but the transfer of exclusive rights is not
valid unless that transfer is in writing and signed by the owner of the
rights conveyed or such owner's duly authorized agent. Transfer of a right
on a nonexclusive basis does not require a written agreement.
