Defamation
This is the name for spoken defamation.
What is slander?
This is the name of the international law that governs copyright.
What is the Berne Convention?
This is the term for fair use in the UK, Canada and Australia.
What is fair dealing?
This is the term for censorship by the government.
What is a prior restraint?
This is the term for reckless disregard for the truth.
What is actual malice?
These are the three "common law" elements of the defamation tort.
What are identification, publication, and injury/harm?
This is where constitutional protection for copyright can be found in the U.S. Constitution.
What is Article I, Section 8.
This is the term for violating the copyright of another person.
What is infringement?
Given one example of censorship by private parties.
-Tumblr taking down pornographic content
-A private university refusing to allow a speaker
-A bookstore deciding not to carry a book
-A theater not allowing a traveling show to perform
-A newspaper blurring faces of children in a photo
-Twitter not allowing hate speech on U.S. accounts
Under copyright law, this is the term for a movie that is based off a book.
What is a derivative work?
This is the term for liability without fault.
What is strict liability?
This is the current term of copyright protection for individual authors in countries that follow the international law.
What is life of the author plus 70 years.
These are the two remedies common in a copyright lawsuit.
What are money damages and injunctions?
An injunction prohibiting publication is this kind of remedy.
What is an equitable remedy (or a remedy sought under the law of equity)?
This is the term for words that are defamatory on their face.
What is defamation per se?
In this case, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that public officials must prove actual malice to win a defamation case.
What is New York Times v. Sullivan?
It must be an original work fixed in a tangible medium with a modicum of creativity.
These are the four factors of Fair Use.
What are: the purpose and character of your use, the nature of the copyrighted work, the amount and substantiality of the portion taken, and the effect of the use upon the potential market.
This is the 1931 case in which the Supreme Court said that prior restraints were presumptively unconstitutional in the United States.
What is Near v. Minnesota?
Under this law, websites who are given notice of copyright violations must take down infringing content.
What is the Digital Millennium Copyright Act?
These are the five elements a plaintiff must prove to win a defamation case in the United States.
What are identification, publication, injury/harm, fault and falsity?
These are the six rights granted to copyright holders.
What are:
This is the case where the Supreme Court outlined the four-part test for Fair Use.
What is Harper & Row v. Nation Enterprises?
This is the 1971 Supreme Court case that involved the Pentagon Papers, which the government tried to prevent majors newspapers from publishing.
What is New York Times v. United States?
This is the one country in the Middle East that is not a member of the Berne Convention.
What is Kuwait?