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Posted by James Grimmelmann on Thursday, February 26 @ 23:40:03 EST Copyright
Remember the Paris Hilton Sex Tape? Remember how the Internet abetted its rapid unauthorized distribution (before the Internet started abetting the rapid distribution of spam advertisements for it)? Well, where there's unauthorized Internet distribution, there's copyright, and where there's copyright, there're crazy doctrinal questions.
Salomon's failure to identify Ms. Hilton as a co-author on the application for copyright registration renders the certificate of registration invalid and fraudulent.
Really. Is this the sort of factual issue on which anything ought to turn?
 
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Re: Paris Hilton And Copyright Law (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Monday, March 08 @ 12:27:57 EST
If I'm reading this properly, it's a real boon to the film actor's guild. The claim is that since Ms. Hilton participated in the film, even occasionally making directoral suggestions (like "get out of the way of the camera!"), that she is a co-author. Seems to me that the same reasoning gives nearly every actor, so long as they play a significant role in defining at least their own character's behavior, a co-author role in the film. Which would make things quite interesting for the film industry. At any rate, it sounds ridiculous to me.

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