Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. In Fourth Estate Public Benefit Corporation v. Wall-Street.com, a unanimous court held today that although the copyright ...

This case highlights that while the U.S. copyright registration process seems facially inexpensive and easy to navigate, the reality is full of pitfalls for the unwary.

Technically, any work that can be copyrighted is copyrighted as soon as that work is fixed in a tangible medium. However, copyright registration provides important benefits, such as the ability to ...

Registration is not required for valid copyright ownership, but it is required before you can bring a copyright infringement lawsuit. Section 411(a) of the Copyright ...

Fourth Estate v. Wall-Street.com is one of two copyright cases on the Supreme Court’s January argument calendar. (The other case, Rimini Street v. Oracle, will be argued on January 14.) Both cases ...

New legislation could simplify how visual artists register for Copyright in the US. The Visual Artists Copyright Reform Act (VACARA) is proposed legislation that aims ...

The process for obtaining copyright registration for a collection of works is generally similar to standard copyright registration procedures. When copyrighting a collection you need to show that your ...

“These sorely needed and common-sense reforms are long overdue and are a first step in bringing so many artists back into the very copyright system that is designed to support their efforts in the ...

Imagine creating something for your business — like original photography, video, music, artwork, written content or computer code — and discovering someone is using it for their own purposes. The time ...