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Engineer · **on:** Aug 3, 2018

What types of works are exempt from copyright protection? Give specific examples of websites that have content that are not protected by copyright law.

What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

If a co-worker in your office asks you to prepare his will and you prepare most of the wills in your office for your attorney, as the legal assistant you should:

A. Prepare the will and supervise the execution thereof.
B. Suggest that he talk to your attorney regarding the will.
C. Give him forms to use to prepare his will.
D. Prepare the will but do not supervise the execution thereof.
E. None of the above.

lgoldst9 · **Reply #1 on:** Aug 3, 2018

Answer to Question 1

Copyright law does not protect the following works:
Works that have not been fixed in a tangible form of expression.
Titles, names, short phrases, and slogans; familiar symbols or designs; mere variations of typographic ornamentation, lettering, or coloring; mere listings of ingredients or contents
Ideas, procedures, methods, systems, processes, concepts, principles, discoveries, or devices, as distinguished from a description, explanation, or illustration
Works consisting entirely of information that is common property and containing no original authorship (for example: standard calendars, height and weight charts, tape measures and rulers, and lists or tables taken from public documents or other common sources)
One example states in the text of a website that has not content not protected by copyright law is a website for online fantasy baseball with Major League Baseball (MLB) statistics. MLB baseball statistics are not protected by copyright as stated by the court in C.B.C. Distribution & Marketing, Inc. v. Major League Baseball Advanced Media, L.P., 505 F.3d 818 (8th Cir. 2007). A website that contains weather data is another example of content that is not protected by copyright law.

Answer to Question 2

B