One of the rights accorded to the owner of copyright is the right to reproduce or to authorize others to reproduce the work in copies or phonorecords.

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Under the current laws, the owner of the copyright can call YouTube and tell them to take it down.

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And the legal owner of the copyright has to have somehow assigned that right to someone -- either directly to OnlineLearning or indirectly via the university -- in order for OnlineLearning to have that right.

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It may seem like an artist should get paid if his song, whether a cover or something else, is imitated elsewhere, but this is "one of those holes in the law that just doesn't end up giving the owner of the sound recording copyright much in the way of rights, " Lemley said.

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The owner of a composition copyright can give anyone permission to use that composition.

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And more is still being copied without authorization of the copyright owner, a major hit on profits and earnings.

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The court correctly noted that consumers benefit from greater choice and lower prices when technology companies, libraries, used bookstores and retailers can import and sell products without having to ascertain that the U.S. copyright owner approves of each further sale.

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Some copyright watchdogs say Google's proposed copyright managing system still places too much of the responsibility for policing content on the copyright owner.

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More weight was added by Yan Xiaohong, deputy director of the National Copyright Administration, who said the agency regards the Shenzhen company as the rightful trademark owner.

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