Copyright Status Determination System and Method
AssigneeThe Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund
InventorsJ. Matthew Miller, Elizabeth Townsend Gard
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Abstract
A system and method for determining the copyright status of a work is provided, comprising presenting one or more initial questions about a work, wherein the initial questions are selected from a question set stored in a first database; receiving an initial response to the initial questions; presenting a subsequent question about the work from the question set, wherein the subsequent question is selected based on the initial responses and a rule set stored in a second database, and wherein the rule set contains rules related to copyright law; receiving a subsequent response to each of the subsequent questions in accordance with the rule set until the copyright status is determined; and displaying the copyright status.
Claims26
A system for determining the copyright status of a work, comprising:
- a central processing unit;
- a display device coupled to the central processing unit;
- a question set stored in a first database in communication with the central processing unit, wherein the question set includes a plurality of questions requesting information about a work;
- a rule set stored in a second database in communication with the central processing unit, the rule set including a plurality of rules based on statutory, regulatory, and judicially determined law;
- wherein the rule set determines which of the questions from the question set to present on the display device in response to input information received from a user;
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- wherein the rule set determines, based on the input information received from the user, a result relating to the copyright status of the work, and displays the result on the display device.
A method for determining the copyright status of a work, comprising:
- presenting on a computer display one or more initial questions about a work, wherein the initial questions are selected from a question set stored in a first database;
- receiving an initial response from user to the initial questions;
- presenting a subsequent question about the work from the question set, wherein the subsequent question is selected based on the initial responses and a rule set stored in a second database, and wherein the rule set contains rules related to copyright law;
- receiving a subsequent response from the user to each of the subsequent questions in accordance with the rule set until the copyright status is determined;
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- displaying the copyright status of the work on the computer display.
A method for determining an object state, comprising:
- presenting on a computer display one or more initial questions about an object, wherein the one or more initial questions is selected from a question set stored in a first database;
- receiving an initial response from a user to the initial questions;
- presenting a subsequent question about the object from the question set, wherein the subsequent question is selected based on the initial response and a rule set stored in a second database, and wherein the rule set contains rules related to the object state;
- receiving a subsequent response to each of the subsequent questions in accordance with the rule set until the object state is determined;
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- displaying the object state on the computer display.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.