EPISODE DESCRIPTION This week, Stan Muller teaches you the basics of copyright in the United States. Copyright law is territorial, so we're going to cover the system we know the most about,...
========== Hi. I'm Stan Muller, this is Crash Course
Intellectual Property, and today we're going to be talking about copyright law. As you
might have guessed, the law of copyright relates to the right to copy, the copy right as it relates
to copies of copyrightable works. You copy? [Theme Music] Right. So, the right to copy or reproduce
copyright protected works is only one of the exclusive rights granted by the law of copyright.
We're also gonna discuss what types of things can actually be copyrighted, what we call
the subject matter. But first, let's talk a little bit about the history of copyright
law in the United States. Why the United States? Not because the US is exceptional and not
because I'm a cultural imperialist trying to erode the iden...