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This 3 page paper discusses issues surrounding copyright as it pertains to the 21st century, including the various viewpoints and their supporters; the stakeholders; who gains and loses in the debate; and why. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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purpose of copyright in the 21st century. Discussion There are very specific rules about what can be copyrighted. Those properties include literary works including "articles and abstracts published in scientific
/ technical / medical journals" (Copyright in the 21st century, 2007). Also included in the list are graphic, pictorial works and sculpture; illustrations in journals; Dilbert cartoons; "musical works, including
any accompanying music"; choreographed works, including pantomimes; dramatic works, including "any accompanying music"; musical works, "including any accompanying words"; films; audiovisual works; recordings; architectural works and computer software (Copyright in
the 21st century, 2007). Things that cannot be copyrighted include ideas, "facts, data, procedures, methods, systems, processes, concepts, principles, discoveries or devices, as distinguished from a description, explanation or
illustrating (Copyright in the 21st century, 2007). But while and idea cannot be protected, the form in which it appears may be (Copyright in the 21st century, 2007). Works that
"have not been fixed in an tangible form by being written, recorded or captured electronically" cannot be copyrighted; neither can names, titles, "short phrases or slogans"; ordinary (non-artistic) designs and
symbols; simple variations in "typographic ornamentation," coloring, lettering, simple lists of ingredients or contents (Copyright in the 21st century, 2007). Other things not liable to be put under copyright
include works that consist "entirely of information that are natural or self-evident facts and that contain no original authorship" (Copyright in the 21st century, 2007). This includes things like the
white pages, height and weight charts, calendars, rulers and tape measures (Copyright in the 21st century, 2007). Also ineligible are works "created by the U.S. Government" and those works on
which the copyright has already expired (Copyright in the 21st century, 2007). The two opposing views on granting copyright are that first, all material should be free to everyone; the
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