Suppose that you want to register your copyright by preparing and filing a copyright application with the U.S. Copyright Office. What if you were unaware that you ...

Looking for a cheaper, easier way to register your copyright? The U.S. Copyright Office is currently restructuring their copyright registration procedures towards an ...

Copyright protection does not exist for an idea, procedure, process, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery. This is true because a copyright protects ...

Writing is a creative activity, but it is also a business. If you want to protect your rights to the original stories you compose as well as your investment of time and effort, you need to register ...

Addressing the regional circuit split over whether copyright registration occurs when a copyright application is filed or when the Register of Copyrights registers ...

Fourth Estate v. Wall-Street.com is one of two copyright cases on the Supreme Court’s January argument calendar. (The other case, Rimini Street v. Oracle, will be argued on January 14.) Both cases ...

Copyrights, trademarks and registrations are legal ways to protect original ideas from being stolen and used as the property of someone else. Although each one has a ...

Tuesday’s argument in Fourth Estate v. Wall-Street.com featured competing interpretations of the phrase “registration of the copyright claim has been made” in 17 U.S.C.§ 411(a), which requires ...

U.S. Copyright Office, Library of Congress. The U.S. Copyright Office is proposing to create a new group registration option for a limited number of unpublished works ...