Later amendments or additions of new material are copyrighted by the choreographer who creates the additions, and this has raised legal questions of ownership.
Aside from CCSS ownership by NGA and CCSSO, CCSS materials are copyrighted by Pearson subsidiary, the Penguin Group -- which also happens to offer Core lesson plans and materials.
The QOLS is copyrighted by Carol Burckhardt.
The MDP is copyrighted by the authors.
In these playthroughs, the underlying material is copyrighted and owned by the game developer, but streamers may be legally allowed to reproduce the copyrighted content if they fall under the "fair use" rule.
The Scour.com Web site does include a copyright notice, but practically speaking it is simple to obtain copyrighted material by entering the search term for the desired song or movie.
A blanket license model, like that legalizing the use of copyrighted material by cable television and radio, can point us to a future system that might work for file sharing.
According to British court documents examined by The New York Times, the Justice Department argues that Mr. O'Dwyer enabled Internet users to easily avail themselves of copyrighted material by providing links to third-party sites that contained thousands of pirated films and television programs.
Last month, though, the site added a feature, Scour Exchange, that lets users exchange one another's multimedia files online, including copyrighted material by some of the world's leading artists, some of them clients of Mr. Ovitz's talent management agency, Artists Management Group.
The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and its Senate companion, Protect IP Act (PIPA), were ostensibly designed to deal with a very real problem: rampant piracy of copyrighted material by foreign websites, particularly those in China.
