Question

Preservationists are reluctant to transfer some very old movies on old, deteriorating film to digital formats because of the difficulties in determining and locating the copyright owners. What aspect of copyright law contributes to this problem

Answer 1

The answer is reproduction rights in copyrights act

Step-by-step explanation:

A copyright is an exclusive right granted to the originator of a work(book,movie,web content,picture) to determine who to use or how his work of art should be put use for a fixed number of years under the copyright act.

One of the rights granted to the copyright owner is the reproduction rights,which stipulates that no individual can reproduce one's copyrighted work or copies it without the express consent of the original owner.

As a result,turning the old movie to digital formats is a daunting task because the copyright owner meant to authorize such transfer to digital version cannot be contacted as his whereabouts is unknown.

The preservationists here as their name denotes are trying to protect others' copyrights from being infringed upon and should not be seen violating the rights they stood up to protect by converting the movies to digital contents without permission of copyright owners.

Answer 2

The reproduction right

Step-by-step explanation:

The reproduction right of the copyright law protects the copies of the material. In its understanding, a copy is classified as that reproduced material which has been taken from a fixed source or it can be perceived to be taken a fixed source. This copying might be in indirect form or direct form. Now making digital copies of old deteriorating films belongs to indirect category