PT130.S2.P3.Q14

PrepTest 130 - Section 2 - Passage 3 - Question 14

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Proponents of the tangible-object theory of copyright argue that copyright and similar intellectual-property rights can be explained as logical extensions of the right to own concrete, tangible objects. ███

Proponents · of tangible-object theory of copyright
Copyrights and IP are logical extensions of the right to own concrete, tangible objects.
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Proponents' Premise · Copyrightable works must be manifest in some physical form
If this is a necessary condition for the tangible-object theory, that's a major weakness...
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Proponents' Premise · Ownership of object confers a number of rights to owner
E.g., right to hide; display; copy; destroy; transfer.
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Application · of tangible-object theory
Creating new object from gives all rights to owner. But transferring ownership of object doesn’t necessarily transfer all rights.
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General · Retained rights is common in other areas of law
e.g., real estate
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Application · of retained rights
Original producer of object often retain the rights to copy for profit and to use for creation of derivative works.
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Proponents' Claim · Chief advantage of tangible-object theory
It justifies IP rights without relying on ownership of abstract entities.
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Author’s Critique · Tangible-object theory cannot apply to non-tangible things
E.g., live broadcast of a sporting event
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Author’s Critique · Tangible-object theory fails to acknowledge that value is in the idea, not the physical form
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Example · The poet v. the transcriber
Reveals weakness in tangible-object theory. Clearly it should be the poet that owns the poem, not the friend who give the poem a tangible form.
Passage Style
Critique or debate
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14.

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a

Copyright and other █████████████████████ ██████ ███ ██ █████████ ██ ███████ ██████████ ██ ███ █████ ██ ███ ████████ ████████

This is a description of the tangible-object theory. The author’s main point isn’t to describe the tangible-object theory, but to criticize it.

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b

Attempts to explain █████████ ███ ███████ █████████████████████ ██████ ██████ ██ █████ ██ ██████ ██ █████████ ██ ████████ ███████ ███ ██████████ ██████████

The main point of the passage is the author’s criticism of the tangible-object theory of copyright, which is the theory that attempts to explain intellectual-property purely in terms of ownership of physical objects. (B) accurately captures this main point.

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c

Copyrighting a work ███████ ██ ████████ ████████ ███████████ ██ █████ █████████ ██ ██████ ███████ ██████ ██ ████ █████

According to theorists, this is what happens when the idea of retained rights is applied to intellectual property. This is not the main point of the passage as a whole; this just shows how one legal concept can be applied to the field of intellectual property.

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d

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The author does not criticize the tangible-object theory on the grounds that ideas should be able to circulate freely; this is not descriptively accurate.

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e

Under the tangible-object ██████ ██ ████████████ █████████ ██████ ██ █████████ ███ █████████████████ ██████████ ██ ████ █████ ███ ████████ ████████

This is descriptively inaccurate. The tangible-object theory is not based on the premise that people can own ideas.

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