2. http://espnet.sportszone.com/ Back to text
3. See Sections xx:8 - xx:11 concerning the variation in fees and charges to construct a Web site due to the extremes in professionalism. Back to text
4. See Selz, Simensky and Acton, Entertainment Law (2d ed.)(Shepard's/McGraw-Hill) (1992) for further reading on the law of attribution of credit. Back to text
5. See Chapter 5 for further information on trademark law. Back to text
6. Report of the Working Group on Intellectual Property Rights, Intellectual Property and the National Information Infrastructure 15 (1995), http://www.uspto.gov/web/ipnii/ipnii.txt. Back to text
7. See Section 4:33 supra for a full explanation of the work made for hire provisions of the Copyright Act of 1976. Back to text
8. A "collective work" is defined as "a work formed by the collection and assembling of preexisting materials or of data that are selected, coordinated, or arranged in such a way that the resulting work as a whole constitutes an original work of authorship. The term "compilation" includes collective works." 17 U.S.C. § 101. Back to text
9. An "audiovisual work" is defined as "works that consist of a series of related images which are intrinsically intended to be shown by the use of machines or devices such as projectors, viewers, or electronic equipment, together with accompanying sounds, if any, regardless of the nature of the material objects, such as films or tapes, in which the works are embodied." 17 U.S.C. § 101. Back to text
10. I use the word "link" instead of the commonly used word "hyperlink." Back to text
11. For further information on the problems of web linking see this author's article, Greenstone, The Weak Link, which can be found at http://www.rjg.com/rjg/weaklink.html. For further information on web linking agreements see Section of Business Law, American Bar Association, Web-Linking Agreements (1997). Back to text
12. See Section xx:17 supra. Back to text
13. For an excellent treatise on the valuation of intellectual property, see The New Role of Intellectual Property in Commercial Transactions: Recent Trends in the Valuation, Exploitation and Protection of Intellectual Property (Melvin Simensky and Lanning G. Bryer, eds. (1994). Back to text
14. See Chapter 5 for further information on trademark law. Back to text
15. See Sections xx:13-xx:15 supra. Back to text
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