The first public module within the Library of Congress’ new Enterprise Copyright System launched Aug. 1 and lays the foundation for future components intended to ...
New legislation could simplify how visual artists register for Copyright in the US. The Visual Artists Copyright Reform Act (VACARA) is proposed legislation that aims ...
The Library of Congress will offer 10-week summer internships to college students, who will help locate and itemize uncataloged materials for the copyright registration process. The internship is an ...
Fall is in the air, and that means the October 2021 opening session of the U.S. Supreme Court is right around the corner. Once again, the court has an intellectual property case on its docket— ...
Under current U.S. copyright law, registration of the copyright in a work is not necessary to create the copyright itself. To the contrary, copyright is created the moment the work is fixed in a ...
In Fourth Estate Public Benefit Corporation v. Wall-Street.com, a unanimous court held today that although the copyright statute confers exclusive rights upon the author of a work as soon as the work ...
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 ...