Exercise 1: Which Exclusive Right Did the Unauthorized Film Violate? — Possible Solution ==================================================================== WHICH RIGHT WAS VIOLATED ------------------------------ Per this chapter's own table, the derivative works right covers "creating adaptations built on the original - a translation, a sequel, a remix, a film based on a book." An unauthorized film adaptation of the novel is a textbook derivative work - it's a new work built directly on the protected expression of the original novel, not a literal copy of it, but still squarely within the derivative-works right specifically. WHY THE PRINT LICENSE DOESN'T COVER THIS ------------------------------ Per this chapter, "each right can be licensed independently... since the rights don't have to be granted or withheld as one indivisible package." The publisher was licensed specifically for physical print distribution - a license touching only the reproduction and distribution rights, and even then only in the specific context of printed copies. Nothing about that license extended to the derivative works right, which is its own separate, independently-licensable piece of the overall bundle. A studio (or the publisher acting beyond its own license) producing a film adaptation is exercising a right that was never granted in the first place. WHY THIS MATTERS AS A GENERAL PRINCIPLE, NOT JUST FOR THIS EXAMPLE ------------------------------ This is exactly the point of describing copyright as a "bundle" rather than one single permission - a license authorizing one specific right (print distribution) grants nothing at all regarding a completely different right (derivative works) unless that separate right was also explicitly included. Assuming a broad license for one right implies permission for the others is a real, common misunderstanding this chapter's bundle framing is specifically meant to correct. WHY THIS WORKS AS AN ANSWER ------------------------------ It correctly names the specific right violated (derivative works, not reproduction or distribution), explains precisely why the existing print license doesn't extend to it using the chapter's own independent-licensing principle, and generalizes the lesson to the underlying "bundle, not one permission" framing the chapter opens with.