How Is Fashion Protected by Copyright Law?
This week, you may have seen photographs and videos of long runways where models donned the season’s latest trends and styles. It’s Fashion Week 2022– the time of year when […]
January 2022 Roundup of Copyright News
Starting this month and throughout 2022 we will be summarizing the previous month’s activities and events in the world of copyright. Judging by the activities in January, 2022 is on […]
States Should Follow New York’s Rejection of Mandatory eBook Licensing
Around the end of December 2021, rightsholders were collectively holding their breaths over several bills which proposed to force publishers into a compulsory regime for the licensing of electronic formats […]
The CASE Act: One-Year Anniversary
It’s almost the one-year anniversary of the CASE Act being passed into law. On December 27, the “Copyright Alternative in Small Claims Enforcement Act of 2019” will turn one year […]
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 […]