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Copyright Hygiene for Digital Content Creators

Velocity of Content

In the second , I looked at the group registration procedures – recently made available by the US Copyright Office – which are specifically useful to bloggers and to managers of blog sites. Be that as it may, our focus so far has been on the benefits of copyright – specifically copyright registration – for digital content creators.

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Cloned-and-Revised Legal Documents Aren’t Copyrightable–UIRC v. William Blair

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

The plaintiff gets an expensive lesson in the law of derivative works. * * * UIRC offers bonds using a private placement memorandum (PPM) and an indenture of trust. UIRC obtained copyright registrations for two versions of its documents. UIRC sued William Blair for copyright infringement. William Blair & Co. ,

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Protecting Software Innovation in India

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

Types of IPR for Software Protection in India Copyright – According to Copyrights Act, 1957; Copyright grants the exclusive rights, to perform certain actions regarding a work or its substantial part. This applies to literary, dramatic, musical, artistic works, computer programs, cinematograph films, and sound recordings.

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A Preliminary Analysis of Trump’s Copyright Lawsuit Over Interview Recordings (Trump v. Simon & Schuster) (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

105 , as a “work of the United States Government”? Fourth, if not, can Trump circumvent the registration requirement by seeking a declaratory judgment, or will he have to comply with the registration requirement? If the work was published with proper copyright notice, it received a federal statutory copyright.

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Eddy Grant Prevails in Copyright Lawsuit Against Trump Campaign

Copyright Lately

First, he rejected the Trump campaign’s argument that a copyright in the “Electric Avenue” sound recording wasn’t validly registered at the time of the video’s release, finding that a 2002 registration of a greatest hits compilation covered the recording.

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IPSC: Copyright and Trademark

43(B)log

Derivative works? Matt Sag: What looks like an increase over time may be an artifact of the way cases became available on WL post-2002 or so. The indicators used by the claimants don’t measure innovation; TM registration counts aren’t innovation. Questions: how does this doctrine interact with concurrent registrations?