Sound recording and reproduction

as ideas. Ideas, then, cannot be copyrighted pursuant to the Copyright Act of 1976, regardless of whether the composition itself is protected under copyright law. Copyright Act of 1976, 17 U.S.C. §§ 102(b) (2012). Copyright law protects only reproduction of the work, limitation of the work, adaptation of the work, distribution of the work, public performance of the work and public display of the work. Copyright Act of 1976, 17 U.S.C. §§ 106 (2012). It does not protect the context in which the…

underlying work. For example: A book cannot be turned into a motion picture without retaining a licensing from the copyright holder of that book (if, the copyright term has not expired) (Jamar, 2013; Kankanala,2012; Goldman, 2014; Grimmelmann,2014). Reproduction The right to reproduce enables the copyright owner to prevent others from reproducing his/her work in any form. The author can provide licensing for other to reproduce his/her work. Many everyday practices violate exclusive rights of…

In the documentary Cracking the Maya Code, we follow the process of how the glyphs were deciphered by a team of archaeologists, artists, adventurers, and linguistists. The reason why nobody could understand the glyphs stemmed in the 16th century when the Spanish Inquisition came to the “New World”. Diego De Landa played a major role in the destruction of the Maya code, his mission was to convert the Mayan to Catholicism. However, he saw them as “devil worshipers” as they believe in making…

Copyright infringement is an issue that has claimed attention in the struggle to maintain fair use of copyrighted works for over a decade. In North America alone, it was estimated that file sharing had grown by 44 percent, a percentage that was conjectured to shoot to 51 percent by 2019 . According to the magnitude of the problem, this paper seeks to explore the effects of the digital millennium copyright act of 1998. The article will discuss the five titles under digital millennium copyright…

For my paper I am going to focus on the movie Singin’ in the Rain and incorporate a quote from the reading stating “From the very beginning of Singin’ in the Rain, the technology responsible for sound reproduction—technology that is usually hidden—is displayed” (Reader, 182). The clip from the film I am going to discuss and analyze is the opening scene of a premiere for Don Lockwood and Lina Lamont. I am going to discuss everything leading up to their arrival. The scene starts off with a big…

looped melodies that brilliantly inform the audience of the almost claustrophobic atmosphere in the beginning of the play, changing with each break and reintroduced only more complex with each following act. In fact, Luka Prinčič explains that most recordings were based on the actual records that Tennessee Williams mentions for this play, and they have been backtracked and looped to create and sustain this bleak atmosphere of the play. Luka claims that working with music means working with…

motion picture viewer at his laboratory with his associate William K. L. Dickson. In October 1888 at his laboratory, Edison announced his plan to invent “an instrument which does for the Eye what the phonograph does for the Ear, which is the recording and reproduction of things in motion” and appointed Dickson, who would rarely receive credit for his work, to begin working (####). In his quest to produce a motion picture viewer, Dickson made an experimental film in the Edison laboratory to test…

Career counselling is one of the application and practice of vocational psychology founded by Frank Parsons (1854-1908). There was no official theory by Parsons on his work and methods like the assessments he utilized. Nevertheless, many career theorists who came up with career development theories and framework credited Parsons for his work as a guiding framework (Baltreniene, 2004) and would consider Parsons’s greatest contribution to career counseling was his advocacy on one’s understanding…

This chapter will explore the development and the popular culture and industry rise, especially in terms of music. As Mark James Russell wrote in his book Pop Goes Korea: “Koreans have long been known as singers and lovers of music, as visiting envoys from China pointed out over 1500 years ago. There were several music traditions in the Joseon dynasty [of 1392 to 1897]. The most famous, the long song-story pansori, grew from the shaman culture of Korea’s southwest. In addition, farmers’ music,…

which happened to be a gift from my mother. This tape contained the album “Surfin’ Safari” by The Beach Boys and was a life-long favorite of my mothers. I would play this tape over and over again, singing along with the band and dancing around to the sounds of the guitar. This was the earliest memory I have where I can clearly recall when my obsession with music began. From this early point, I began diverging into many different genres of music and gained the desire to begin researching all of…