Jan 24, 2012 13:19
12 yrs ago
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English term

material support

English Art/Literary Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting
"Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works protects the author's rights (copyright) on their work. The protected works have to be fixed on material support. The Convention only protects individual rights. Works which are not fixed on a material support (such as verbal expressions i.e., folk tales, songs, etc.) are not protected".

Discussion

Kim Metzger Jan 24, 2012:
I think you've got a bad translation of "fixés sur un support matériel"

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fixation of the work in a medium

La notion d’« œuvre » renvoie à toute forme d’expression matérialisée et originale. La fixation à un support matériel constitue une condition sine qua non de la production d’une œuvre. Ainsi, « produire » une œuvre fait référence à une première matérialisation et la « reproduire » à toute fixation matérielle ultérieure qui s’inspire (au sens causal) de la première fixation. La fixation à un nouveau support matériel constitue donc l’élément fondamental de l’acte de « reproduire [. . .] sous une forme matérielle quelconque » ce qui existait déjà sous une première forme matérielle. Un tel comportement relève du plagiat et constitue une violation des droits d’auteur trouvés au par. 3(1) L.d.a.

The concept of “work” refers to any materialized and original form of expression. Fixation of the work in a medium is a condition sine qua non of the production of a work. Therefore, “producing” a work refers to the initial materialization and “reproducing” it refers to any subsequent material fixation that is modelled (in the causal sense) on its first fixation. Fixation of the work in a new medium is therefore the fundamental element of the act of “reproduc[ing] . . . in any material form whatever” what already existed in a first, original material form. That type of conduct amounts to plagiarism and constitutes an infringement of copyright under s. 3(1) C.A.

http://scc.lexum.org/en/bulletin/2002/02-03-28.bul/02-03-28....


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Note added at 33 mins (2012-01-24 13:53:05 GMT)
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Work fixed in a medium

Copyrightable work is original work fixed in a medium—literary works; musical works; dramatic works …
http://www.councilscienceeditors.org/files/scienceeditor/v25...


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Note added at 1 hr (2012-01-24 14:36:24 GMT)
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Or fixed in any material form
a performance of an artistic work, dramatic work or musical work, whether or not the work was previously fixed in any material form

Selon le cas, que l’oeuvre soit encore protégée ou non et qu’elle soit déjà fixée sous une forme matérielle quelconque ou non

http://lois-laws.justice.gc.ca/fra/lois/C-42/TexteComplet.ht...
Peer comment(s):

agree Charles Davis : I was thinking of "medium" too.
12 mins
agree Colin Rowe
36 mins
agree Tony M
1 hr
agree Martin Riordan
1 hr
agree Ashutosh Mitra
14 hrs
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17 mins

a physical support

I agree with Kim: to start with, it really begs the indefinite article, and as he says, it simply reeks of a translation from FR.
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23 hrs

tangible medium of expression

As Kim indicated, this appears to be a bad translation from a French text.

In English, the proper phrase is "fixed in a tangible medium of expression."

Here is a website that explains what is meant by the phrase in more detail:

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/102.html

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