Transfer, Assignment, and Licensing

This topic has no further subtopics. Explore its practice questions below.

1. Under amended Section 180.1, copyright may be assigned or licensed to what extent?
2. What is required for copyright to be deemed assigned or licensed inter vivos under Section 180.2?
3. Under Section 181, what is the relationship between copyright and the material object?
4. A collector buys the sole physical painting but receives no written copyright assignment or licence. The collector clai…
5. A written licence permits one specified reproduction use only. The licensee asserts that Section 180 gives it every unr…
6. An author executes a valid written assignment of a particular copyright interest but retains ownership of the physical …
7. An exclusive licensee holds a defined economic right under a valid agreement. A defendant argues that only an assignmen…
8. Explain the written-indication and scope rules for inter vivos copyright assignment or licensing.
9. Give the two directions of Section 181's separation between copyright and material-object ownership.
10. Explain the statutory position of an exclusive licensee and the copyright owner's account-statement right.
11. Absent an expressly greater grant, submission of a literary work to a newspaper for publication constitutes what under …
12. Where two persons jointly own copyright, what consent does Section180.3 require before one grants a license?