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- Harry Potter And the Case of the Copyright Infringement
- Harry Potter And the Case of the Copyright InfringementRE: Harry Potter And the Case of the Copyright InfringementSpell check. When "putting the breaks on", one should use the word,"brakes" to mean stopping power.Not the first timeThis is not the first set of literary works that have had a "lexicon"...
- Discussion threads 2008-04-15
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- Inside Word: There's No Economic Value In A Copyright
- The Inside Word is a weekly feature that looks at compelling industry debates and discussions unfolding on the blogs of employees at digital-media companies.Blogger: William PatryPosition: Senior copyright counsel, GoogleBlog name: Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars Backstory: Patry has practiced copyright law for more than 25 years, and...
- External links 2009-08-14
- Fraud on the Copyright Office. (The Law of the Line).(Brief Article)(Column)
- Fraud on the Copyright Office can invalidate a copyright registration. As you may recall, copyright registration is not a prerequisite to ownership of a copyright; copyright springs into existence automatically when a work of authorship is fixed in a Fraud on the Copyright Office can invalidate...
- Research articles 2002-03-01
- Justin.tv Steps Up Copyright Protection Efforts
- Justin.tv has just announced a new copyright protection process it is initiating. The site is working with Vobile to filter content on Justin.tv using their database of content."As of this week we've begun fingerprinting all saved clips on Justin.tv and scanning them against Vobile's content database," Justin.tv VP Marketing Evan...
- News items 2009-08-12
- White Paper?Copyright and the Internet: An Introduction to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and Related Issues
- This publication provides an introductory survey of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 ("DMCA") and recent case-law developments affecting the application of copyright to the Internet. The copyright law aims to benefit society by fostering the creation and dissemination of works of authorship. It achieves this goal by providing...
- White papers 2002-07-18
- Are Copyright Collecting Societies Efficient? An Evaluation of Collective Administration of Copyright in Europe
- This document examines the conditions for an efficient collective administration of copyright. Copyright collecting societies CCS play a key role in the field of copyright management. They are non-governmental non-profit organizations, which administer the rights of copyright holders. They negotiate licenses with users and receive payments they distribute among their...
- White papers 2002-05-20
- French revolution.(copyright law)
- EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: * Both France and Canada impose consumer taxes to compensate copyright owners for economic losses, which relaxes those countries' copyright enforcement standards. * As copyright legislation differs internationally, it EXECUTIVE...
- Research articles 2005-05-09
- Copyright Clearance Center Introduces ''Copyright Plus'' Desktop Compliance Solution; Pfizer Inc. First to Implement New Licensing and Education Resource
- DANVERS, Mass. -- Copyright Clearance Center, the world's premier provider of copyright licensing and compliance solutions, today unveiled CopyRight Plus--a desktop solution that helps companies make it easier and faster for their employees to comply with copyright law. Copyright Clearance Center will demonstrate their newest offering at the Special Libraries...
- Research articles 2005-06-06
- Do not bypass go.(Copyright applied to Internet)(Brief Article)
- Critics, including academics and library personnel, fear Copyright Office ruling will impede 'fair-use' access to content The U.S. Copyright Office has narrowly defined when online users can legally circumvent copyright protecdon, and critics Critics, including academics and library...
- Research articles 2000-11-06
- Copyright Office Issues Report on Distance Education and Copyright Law.(Brief Article)
- As mandated in 1998's Digital Millennium Copyright Act (H.R. 2281), the U.S. Copyright Office has issued "Copyright and Digital Distance Education" (www. loc.gov/copyright/disted/). The 348-page report surveys the practical and legal issues about distance education and concludes with a consideration of whether copyright law should be...
- Research articles 1999-09-01
- Copyright office urges review of cable bills. (United States Copyright Office)
- WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Copyright Office urged a House copyright subcommittee last week to review program-access and non-discrimination provisions contained in major cable legislation in the House and Senate. Ralph Oman, chief of the Copyright Office, said these provisions, contained in...
- Research articles 1992-01-20
- Verizon tests sending RIAA copyright notices
- Verizon customers who pirate music files may soon receive an unwelcome letter from the company.Verizon, the second largest phone company in the United States, is expected to begin issuing "copyright notices" on behalf of the Recording Industry Association of America to those accused of illegally downloading songs from the Web,...
- News items 2009-11-13
- An Overview of United States Copyright Law
- A copyright is the legal right to control specific uses of art, books, music, motion pictures, and many other kinds of creative material. Copyright is granted by law in most countries and in the United States by a federal statute called The Copyright Act of 1976. This statute governs who...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Toward a "New Deal" for Copyright for an Information Age
- To the extent that copyright law applies to the conduct of ordinary persons, its incomprehensibility presents serious difficulties. Moreover, to the extent that copyright law makes illegal many ordinary activities of individuals?for example, making private copies of music for oneself or to share with a friend or forwarding articles to...
- White papers 2002-07-30
- The Expiration of Copyright Protection: Survey and Analysis of U.S. Copyright Law for Identifying the Public Domain
- In addition to a detailed examination of the law of copyright duration, this study will also offer guiding principles for relatively succinct application of the rules of law to many of the most common situations. Second, this study examines only copyright law. Moreover, it examines only the rules of duration...
- White papers 2001-04-30
- United States Copyright Office: A Brief Introduction and History
- Copyright is a form of protection provided by the laws of the United States for original works of authorship, including literary, dramatic, musical, architectural, cartographic, choreographic, pantomimic, pictorial, graphic, sculptural, and audiovisual creations. This article focuses on the role and importance of the copyright office of America. The Copyright Office...
- White papers
- U.S. Copyright Office.(on Digital Millennium Copyright Act)(Brief Article)
- The U.S. Copyright Office has postponed delivery of its report on the impact of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act on the First Sale ... The U.S. Copyright Office has postponed delivery of its report on the impact of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act on...
- Research articles 2000-10-30
- Mexico overhauls copyright laws. (copyright protection for sound recordings, urged by Recording Industry Association of America) (Brief Article)
- Mexico overhauls copyright laws Completing a 2 1/2-year struggle, the Recording Industry Association of America RIAA celebrated a victory with the revision of Mexican copyright laws. A bill passed by the Mexican government July 9 will...
- Research articles 1991-08-09
- U.S. Copyright office: Report on legal protection for databases
- Excerpts of the Executive Summary, August 1997 I. Copyright Protection for Databases in the United States A. BEFORE FEIST Databases, or "compilations," have been protected by copyright since 1790, when the first U.S. Copyright Act was enacted. As courts applied copyright law to compilations, two distinct rationales for protection emerged....
- Research articles 1997-12-01
- U.S. Copyright Office publishes copyright law termination notices
- The U.S. Copyright Office published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking NPRM in the Federal Register, May 3, 2001, Vol. 66, No. 86, at Pages 22139 - 22140. The Copyright Office is proposing amendments to its regulation governing notices of termination of transfers and licenses covering the extended...
- Research articles 2001-05-08
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