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 ...

The Visual Artists Copyright Reform Act aims to create a more modern system for photographers and other visual artists ...

Technically, any work that can be copyrighted is copyrighted as soon as that work is fixed in a tangible medium. However, copyright registration provides important benefits, such as the ability to ...

“These sorely needed and common-sense reforms are long overdue and are a first step in bringing so many artists back into the very copyright system that is designed to support their efforts in the ...

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 owners will have to wait for the registration process to play out before suing for infringement, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday. Owners had ...

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 ...

The process for obtaining copyright registration for a collection of works is generally similar to standard copyright registration procedures. When copyrighting a collection you need to show that your ...

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— ...