USC Cinema Copyright Policy 1998
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What's this all about? USC Cinema steals the Copyright away from a fresh
batch of cinema students each semester by fraud and theft. It's unlawful
conduct by USC. It's not right. USC Cinema students ought to learn and
understand something about U.S. Copyright Law with respect to their
own Story Rights. USC
Cinema students ought to register their original works for Copyright: Story
Treatment Script Short Films
How does USC Cinema steal the Copyright
to student-produced short films? USC Cinema requires each new, fresh, young, unknowing
USC Cinema student to sign a "policy" document. The 2007
USC Copyright policy document is simply a bunch of meaningless verbiage
that seeks to give an impression of plausibility through misdirection,
obfuscation, misleading fraudulent assertions and false statements. USC
legal counsel lacks the copyright law experience and understanding -- or
ethics -- necessary for proper use of U.S. Copyright Law provisions. The
policy document is simple fraud and theft. It's unlawful. On student-produced
short films USC Cinema typically seeks production
company credit as well. USC Cinema thinks they make short films. They
do not. Cinema students make short films at USC. USC Cinema certainly did
not produce my short film. There were just four of us who made my senior
480 project "Broncho
Billy" (1970).
Take Unfair Advantage USC Cinema seeks to argue they are somehow justified
to require cinema students to provide their contractual consent with respect
to their signature on the 2007 USC Copyright policy document. Typically
a film student would not seek to challenge their own school and be barred
from enrolling in cinema courses. Thus, USC Cinema seeks an unfair advantage
-- a superior bargaining position -- to obtain a students contractual
consent when there is no opportunity for negotiation. These required written
policy documents are unconscionable and unenforceable by a court of law.
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Films learn more: Copyright.gov |
USC Cinema consent
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Copyright is a key to protecting your Story Rights USC Cinema now offers no instruction on U.S. Copyright
Law for stories - treatments - scripts - short films
Here is where you can find all the answers: U.S. Copyright Office: Copyright.gov
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