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Copyright Campaign Learn something about Copyright - it's good for you - USC School of Cinematic Arts - U.S. Copyright law
information / instruction for film students - U.S. Copyright Registration of Story - Treatment
- Screenplay by the Authors / film students - Collaboration Agreements / Deal Memos between student
Authors and their film crews - U.S. Copyright Registration by film students for
their own Short Films - not USC Cinema - A Marketing / Distribution agreement between student
copyright owners and USC Cinema Those are the key results sought by our on-going USC
Cinema Copyright Campaign
It's The Right Thing To Do Imagine a film school filled with a bunch of Authors
/ copyright owners walking by and heading off to their next class. That's
quite a different perception than film students who make short films who's
right, title and interests in their original works are then owned by someone
else. Think about it. What a changed perception of dignity toward the young
film students. It's as it ought to be. That's what U.S. Copyright is all
about - rights to Authors. It's in the U.S. Constitution. It's part of
U.S. Copyright law. We ought to abide by it. It's the right thing to do.
Instruction about U.S. Copyright
Law Learn something about Copyright - it's good for you Author - Original Work of Authorship - Exclusive Rights
- Joint Works - Derivative Works - Copyright Registration
U.S. Copyright Office Learn something about Copyright - it's good for you Here is where you can find all the answers: U.S. Copyright Office: Copyright.gov
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U.S. Copyright Registration Learn something about Copyright - it's good for you USC Cinema students learn to register their Story
- Treatment - Screenplay with the U.S. Copyright Office
Collaboration Agreements Learn something about Copyright - it's good for you Film students to work out copyright ownership to a
completed short film, BEFORE production starts. As the copyright owner, the Author of the story -
treatment - screenplay - has the exclusive right to do or authorize a derivative
work - a short film. Film students ought to learn to draft Collaboration
Agreements / Deal Memos between the Story Author and each member of the
film crew.
U.S. Copyright Registration Learn something about Copyright - it's good for you USC Cinema students learn to register their Short
Films with the U.S. Copyright Office Thus, USC Cinema students will own the copyright to
their Short Films
Marketing / Distribution Agreement Learn something about Copyright - it's good for you USC Cinema film students who own the copyright to
their short films can enter into a distribution agreement with the USC
Cinema Office of Student-Industry Relations and follow set guidelines that
provide that all rights with respect to the short films are cleared. The
Office of Student-Industry Relations can help distribute student short
films to film festivals and on Internet sites. USC Cinema does not have
to own the copyright to short films to provide that service - if
the are willing to do it.
Here is where you can find all the answers: U.S. Copyright Office: Copyright.gov
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