UCSB
Copyright Information
The Office of Technology & Industry
Alliances manages intellectual
property, including copyrights,
for the UCSB campus.
What is a copyright?
The U.S.
Constitution granted to Congress
the power "to
promote the progress of science
and the useful arts, by securing
for limited times to authors and
inventors, the exclusive right
to their respective writings and
discoveries." The copyright
laws were enacted to govern the
rights granted to authors to protect
their writings, and patent law
was enacted to govern the rights
granted
to inventors to protect their discoveries.
Over time, the copyright laws were
expanded to protect music, sound
recordings, pictures and other
visual art, movies and other audiovisual
works, dramatic and choreographed
works, and computer software.
Copyright law protects the expression
of ideas, not the ideas themselves.
To be eligible for copyright protection,
a work must be original and fixed
in a tangible medium and be one
of the following eight categories
of works:
* literary works, including computer
software
* musical works, including any accompanying words
* dramatic works, including any accompanying music
* pantomimes and choreographic works
* pictorial, graphic, and sculptural works
* motion pictures and other audiovisual works
* sound recordings
* architectural works
Additional Information
More information
about copyrights is available
through the links below. Also listed
are links to other universities'
websites,
which may provide additional
helpful
background, with the understanding
that their policies and approaches
to copyright issues may not be
identical to those of UC.
Federal
Law
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