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 What is copyright? The United States Government definition is: Copyright is the protection given to authors of “original works of authorship” including literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, photographic and certain other intellectual works. This protection covers both published and unpublished works and gives the owner of the copyright the exclusive right to the work.
Copyright protects “forms of expression” that are in a fixed form. In other words, once a literary work, computer program, artwork, photograph, written musical score, animation, movie, video, Web page or photograph is placed on a recordable media, it immediately becomes the property of the author who created the work. No copyright notice is required.
Lifetouch reserves the right to refuse to print any material, which in its opinion is tortious, illegal or violates any copyright or proprietary rights. Lifetouch assumes no obligation for reviewing or editing materials submitted by or on behalf of a school.
Copyright does not protect government publications, titles, names, slogans, familiar symbols, and works that are in the public domain because their copyright has expired. Works consisting entirely of information that is common property and containing no original authorship (for example: standard calendars, height and weight charts, tape measures and ruler, etc.) are also not eligible for copyright protection.
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