Supreme Court Poised to Possibly Decide Important Copyright Registration Issue
You may have heard that copyright registration is not required for a work to be protected under copyright law, but that it is required for a copyright owner to take […]
6 Things To Know About the Music Modernization Act, S. 2823
Today, exactly one month after H.R. 5447—the House version of the Music Modernization Act— was introduced, a similar bill, titled the Music Modernization Act of 2018 (MMA) (S. 2823) was […]
Oracle v. Google: Preserving Fair Use and Creators’ Rights
In a closely watched case, the Federal Circuit held on Tuesday that Google’s copying of the structure, sequence, and organization of Oracle’s Java application programming interface (API) library was not […]
Celebrating Women In Leadership At the Copyright Office
Today is International Women’s Day, and in celebration, we’d like to honor the legacies, and achievements of former women Registers of Copyrights and the current Acting Register of Copyrights of […]
Exploring the Bounds of Fair Use: Public.Resource.Org
In most cases, works created by a government are not protected by copyright. As a matter of public policy, the U.S. Copyright Office will not register laws or regulations enacted […]
Exploring the Bounds of Fair Use: Fox News v. TVEyes
Real news, fake news, old news, breaking news—in today’s world, news and media pervades every corner of our lives. Nonprofit organizations, for-profit companies, and governments all closely watch and monitor […]
Infringe, Recycle, Repeat: Not For a Healthy Digital Copyright Ecosystem
“DMCA=reactivate.” Not quite the phrase that inspires a sense of balance in the digital copyright space. This phrase, used by Cox itself to describe its DMCA repeat infringer policy, illustrates […]
Gone With the Old: New Rules for Group Registration of Newspapers
In September, 2016, the trade association for newspapers in the U.S. changed its name from the Newspaper Association of America to the News Media Alliance, a change reflecting “the news […]
A Copyright Alliance Year in Review 2017
2017 marked the 10-Year Anniversary of the Copyright Alliance and was a year that had no shortage of copyright-related activities. As the new year is coming up, we’d like to […]
Ad Industry Efforts Keep the Pirates at Bay
The Trustworthy Accountability Group (TAG), a group of advertisers and agencies formed to address ad supported piracy, malware, and fraud, released its year-long study this week on the impact of […]