copyright infringement
The act of violating any of a copyright owner's exclusive rights granted by law. In the United States, a copyright owner has several exclusive rights in copyrighted works, including the rights (a) to reproduce the work, (b) to prepare derivative works based on the work, (c) to distribute copies of the work, (d) for certain kinds of works, to perform the work publicly, (e) for certain kinds of works, to display the work publicly, (f) for sound recordings, to perform the work publicly, and (g) to import into the United States copies acquired elsewhere (Black’s Law Dictionary (8th ed. 2004)).
case, an artist’s claims against both a non-profit organization and an architectural firm were dismissed when a federal district court in New York held that (1) generic architectural renderings of an aquatic-themed carousel amounted to non-copyrightable scènes à faire; and (2) the “right to complete artwork is not a . . . .
