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Jamal wrote highly original lyrics for a rap song. He recorded a music video of himself performing the lyrics and uploaded the video to YouTube.com

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Jamal wrote highly original lyrics for a rap song. He recorded a music video of himself performing the lyrics and uploaded the video to YouTube.com (where anyone internet user could hear the song and watch the video for free). Tianna saw Jamal's rap video and decided to write a poem based on her own adaptation of Jamal's rap lyrics. Tianna asked Jamal fo_r permission to create the poem based on his rap, and Jamal agreed (as part of the agreement, Tianna paid Jamal.) The characters in Tianna's poem engaged in the same basic series of events as the characters in Jamal's song. However, the endings of the song and poem were quite different--Jamal's characters all died, but Tianna's lived. As such, the ultimate message to the listener/reader of each work was quite different. Tianna attempted to register a copyright for the poem she created. Consider Jamal and Tianna's respective copyright interests (if any), and choose which of the following statements is most correct: 0 1) Jamal owns a copyright in his original work; also, 2) Tianna owns a copyright in her derivative work, but 3) Jamal will not own a copyright interest any element of Tianna's derivative work; Q 1) Jamal does NOT own a copyright in his original work because he uploaded it to the internet; under the terms of the DMCA(Digital Millenium Copyright Act) Jamal's copyright in the song automatically expired when he uploaded the song the internet; 0 1) Jamal owns a copyright in his original work, but 2) Tianna does NOT own a copyright in her derivative work; Q 1) Jamal owns a copyright in his original work, AND 2) Tianna owns a copyright in her derivative work; 3) Tianna owns a copyright interest in the \"original elements" of the poem she created, and Jamal will continue to own copyright in the original elements from his song that Tianna copied into her derivative work

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