This document discusses copyright and fair use as it relates to a class project on the films Raiders of the Lost Ark and Black Rainbow. It provides definitions of copyright and fair use, describes the plots of the two films and one screenwriter's claim that scenes were copied from his work, and summarizes the opinion that generic plot similarities alone do not constitute copyright infringement. The screenwriter for Black Rainbow lost his court case on the matter.

1. Copyright
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Class Project- Fair Use

2. Raiders of the Lost Ark
• Top Story
• Copyright
• Indiana Jones VS. Black Rainbow
• My Opinion
• The End

3. Copyright
• the use of other’s work without their consent.
• Fair use allows students to use some material for
school projects.
• If caught, you can be but in jail or fined.
• Definition: the exclusive right to make
copies, license, and otherwise exploit a
literary, musical, or artistic work, whether
printed, audio, video, etc.

4. Raiders of the Lost Ark VS.
Black Rainbow
Indiana Jones Black Rainbow
• An archeologist in • Claimed that many
search of artifacts in a scenes from his
foreign country. screenplay were in
• Had identical scenes Raiders of the Lost Ark.
and plot as Black
Rainbow.

5. My Opinion
• It’s a fictional story so it doesn’t really matter if some
of the plot was the same.
• The similarities between Black Rainbow and Raiders
of the Lost Ark were similarities one would expect to
find of any two movies of that genre.
• Zambito, the screenwriter for “Black Rainbow” lost
in court.

6. The End
• My information came from:
www.copyrightwebsite.com