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Federal Court Digests: June 4, 2007
U.S. Supreme Court Education Rights of parents under IDEA BOTTOM LINE: IDEA grants parents independent, enforceable rights, which are not limited to procedural and reimbursement-related matters but encompass the entitlement to a free appropriate public education for their child. CASE: Winkelman v....
Tags: agent, bankruptcy, Cir, competency, Copyright Office, Debtor, Judge, Litigation, Register
Research articles 2007-06-04
A reading road trip around copyright: an annotated tour of copyright resources.
AS copyright becomes part of the nation's mainstream discourse, more publications are devoting time and space to the topic. This leads to an interesting evolution in publication and viewpoint. Where copyright was once discussed only in expensive, exclusive, and mostly print publications and forums, today copyright...
Tags: Copyright Office, INTERNET, U.S., Web
Research articles 2007-01-01
To register or not
The Berne Copyright Convention (see www.wipo.int) specifically states that copyright protection should not be subject to any formalities such as registering or depositing a work, or marking it with a copyright symbol like [c]. Article 5(2) of the Convention states: "The enjoyment and the exercise of these rights shall...
Tags: Canada, Copyright Office, INTERNET, U.S.
Research articles 2006-03-01
APA.(Industry News)
APA (www.apanational.com) announced that the Copyright Office has agreed to include advertising and marketing photographs in the list of media eligible for pre-registration of copyright. All this means photographers are now able to register their work, even prior to its completion. Hats off to APA's John...
Tags: Copyright Office, MARKETING
Research articles 2005-12-01
New Patent & Trademark Rules information service from Pike & Fischer.
Pike & Fischer (Washington, D.C.) has begun the CD-ROM/print production of "Rules Service," an information source provided through loose-leaf binders and CD-ROM formats. The service is designed to help professionals ensure that their organizations stay in compliance with patent, trademark and copyright laws and regulations. Specifically...
Tags: CD-ROM, Copyright Office, Litigation, Patent
Research articles 2005-11-01
COPYRIGHT
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY COPYRIGHT Sections within this essay: Background Definition of Copyright History of Copyright Copyrightable Works What is Copyrightable What is Not Copyrightable Copyright Ownership Registration, Deposit, and Notice Identify Ownership Attributes of Ownership Duration of Ownership Copyright Infringement Definition of Infringement Defense to Infringement: Fair Use Remedies...
Tags: Copyright Office
Research articles 2005-10-25
NCTA Seeks Signal-Fee Reform (Multichannel News)
Cable operators deserve a break in the fees they pay for compulsory licenses to carry stations affiliated with broadcasters Fox, UPN, The WB and Paxson Communications Corp., the National Cable & Telecommunications Association asserts in a recent filing with the federal Copyright Office. In its...
Tags: Cable, Copyright Office, HARDWARE, network, NETWORKING, TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Research articles 2005-08-29
Copyright application is not registration, federal judge rules
A Maryland-based communications firm cannot sue for infringement of Web designs it sought to copyright just one business day before filing suit, a federal judge in Maryland has held. U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett dismissed the suit by Mays & Associates Inc. against Robin N. Euler, a...
Tags: Copyright Office
Research articles 2005-05-26
Copy this essay: how fair use doctrine harms free speech and how copying serves it.
Recent cases and scholarship have debated whether copyright law is consistent with the First Amendment. Much of the discussion has centered on copyright law's ability to suppress transformative, creative reuses of copyrighted works and on copyright's fair use doctrine as a mechanism to protect such transformative uses. This Essay argues...
Tags: Cir, Cohen, Copyright Office, Gordon, M., Mitchell, performance, permission, Richard, Robert
Research articles 2004-12-01
Copyright's communications policy.
INTRODUCTION There is something for everyone to dislike about early twenty-first century copyright. Owners of content say that newer and better technologies have made it too easy to be a pirate. Easy copying, they say, threatens the basic incentive to create new works; new...
Tags: broadcaster, broadcasting, Copyright Office, FCC, government, incentive, incumbent, Internet, M., Nelson, radio, Richard, Robert, settlement, Sony Corp., statute, technology, theory, TV, U.S. Congress
Research articles 2004-11-01
Copyright term and the public domain in the United States: 7 July 2004
UNPUBLISHED WORKS Type of Work Copyright Term Unpublished works Life of the author +...
Tags: Copyright Office, The Library of Congress
Research articles 2004-11-01
Copyright term and the public domain in the United States
The Constitution stipulates that copyright can only last "for limited times," but how long is limited? To answer that question, it is first necessary to address a few other questions. For example, who is the author for copyright purposes of the work? If it is an individual, the copyright...
Tags: Copyright Office, U.S.
Research articles 2004-11-01
Cabining intellectual property through a property paradigm.
ABSTRACT One of the most revolutionary legal changes in the past generation has been the "propertization" of intellectual property IP. The duration and scope of rights expand without limit, and courts and companies treat IP as absolute property, bereft of any restraints. But ...
Tags: Campbell, Cohen, Copyright Office, Dennis, dilution, equity, Federal Reserve Board, Fisher, Gordon, Government, incentive, innovation, M., Merrill, patent, Pub, restraint, Richard, Robert, Rose, theory, Tragedy, U.S., Working
Research articles 2004-10-01
U.S. Copyright Office to Use Siebel Public Sector to Streamline Case Management, Enhance Public Service.
SAN MATEO, CALIFORNIA, Mar 10, 2004 CCNMatthews via COMTEX Copyright Office Will Replace Paper-Based Case Management Systems with Siebel CRM Implementation Siebel Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:SEBL), a leading provider of business applications software, today announced that the U.S. Copyright Office is utilizing...
Tags: Copyright Office, MARKETING, Siebel Systems Inc., SOFTWARE, Streamline, U.S. Copyright Office
Research articles 2004-03-10
Exemption contempt: for DMCA warriors, reality has ceased to be an organizing principle of their convictions.(Headliners)(a discussion of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act)
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: * Opponents of the DMCA threw everything they had at the Copyright Office, seeking exemptions for regional coding, works in the public domain, DVD backup copying, bonus materials, etc. * The studios refuse to...
Tags: Copyright Office, DMCA, DVD, exemption
Research articles 2003-11-03
Royalty fees apply to Internet
PHILADELPHIA -- Radio stations must pay royalties to recording companies and performers, as they do to composers and songwriters, when musical broadcasts are "streamed" over the Internet, a federal appeals court has affirmed. A three-judge panel of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a rule...
Tags: broadcaster, Copyright Office, INTERNET, MARKETING, radio, RIAA
Research articles 2003-10-21
Entrepreneur Column.
By Judith Silver, Entrepreneur Column Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 4--QUESTION: My late brother and I developed a uni...ue insurance concept. I applied for and received a copyright. I was later informed by a neutral party that I was also in need...
Tags: copyright office, Entrepreneur.com Inc., Entrepreneurship, FINANCE, Insurance, patent
Research articles 2003-07-04
Update on perfecting security interests in intellectual property
The Ninth Circuit holds that a UCC-1 filing perfects a security interest in unregistered copyrights. A recent decision of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Aerocon Engineering, Inc. v. Silicon Valley Bank, et. al., 2002 WL 31017352, held that a lender can perfect...
Tags: borrower, Copyright Office, financing, patent, SECURITY, software
Research articles 2003-04-01
Salute for 'broadcast flag': Copyright official supports copy protection for digital content. (Top of the Week).
Broadcasters and Hollywood appear to have the upper hand in the fight over technology designed to stop illegal Internet distribution of broadcast digital-TV programs. Judging by comments of a top Copyright Office official last week, opponents of the "broadcast flag" overstate consumers'...
Tags: broadcaster, Copyright Office, Government, Hollywood, TVs
Research articles 2003-03-10
Copyright as a rule of evidence.
ABSTRACT Many copyright doctrines serve to exclude from the copyright regime cases particularly prone to evidentiary complexity. The implicit logic is that, for these cases, the social costs of litigation would likely outweigh the social benefits derived from offering copyright protection in the...
Tags: Cir, Copyright Office, litigation, merger, phone, professor, Pub, Register, statute, theory
Research articles 2003-02-01
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