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If you’re a copyright owner, you need to protect your intellectual property (IP). If you don’t protect IP, you may lose your copyrights altogether. Copyrights are property rights. You need to control them the same way you would control access to a family heirloom. If you had a diamond ring that had been passed down through the generations, you would keep control of that diamond ring. You wouldn’t let just anyone use it, wear it or take it out of the house. The same thing is true with copyrights; however, copyrights are very easy to distribute, to make replications of, and to take control of by third parties. So, it’s not as easy as simply putting your family heirloom (diamond ring) in a safe and keeping it locked up. You have to be wary of third party infringement.
Ann Arbor Copy Shop Loses Fair Use Defense in Copyright Infringement Lawsuit
Excel Test Preparation, a university course pack copy shop located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, has lost a copyright infringement lawsuit brought by five publishing companies, including Oxford University Press and SAGE Publications. Unlike other local copy shows that copy and bind course packs provided by professors (and pay licensing fees to do so), Excel allowed students to make copies of a master course pack that was provided by a professor. Excel argued that its actions were covered by the fair use defense under the Copyright Act.
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