US-CA9 · jury_instructions
9th Cir. Model Jury Instr. (Civil) 17.10
Copyright Interests—Authors of Collective Works
(17 U.S.C. § 201(c))
An owner of a copyright in a collective work is entitled to exclude others from copying it. A collective work is a work [such as [a newspaper, magazine, or periodical issue] [an anthology] [an encyclopedia]] in which a number of contributions, constituting separate and independent works in themselves, are selected, coordinated or arranged into an original, collective whole. The person who assembles the contributions of independent works into the collective work is an author and is entitled to copyright, but only in the selection, arrangement, or coordination of works made by that person.
Copyright in a collective work is distinct from copyright in the separate contributions to a collective work. In the absence of an express transfer of copyright in the separate contribution, the copyright owner of the collective work is presumed to have acquired only the privilege of reproducing and distributing the contribution as part of that particular collective work, any revision of that collective work, and any later collective work in the same series.
A copyright owner of a collective work may enforce the right to exclude others from the work’s original selection, coordination, or arrangement in an action for copyright infringement.
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