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Not Invincible: A Cautionary Tale for Creators

Copyright Lately

Contributors to creative works are of course free to reach whatever type of agreement they’d like regarding revenue splits—although it’s definitely preferable to put things in writing, especially when it comes to proving up the contract in a lawsuit. The copyright notice for Invincible #1 is in the names of Robert Kirkman and Cory Walker.

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A Preliminary Analysis of Trump’s Copyright Lawsuit Over Interview Recordings (Trump v. Simon & Schuster) (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

If the work was published with proper copyright notice, it received a federal statutory copyright. If the work was published without proper copyright notice, the work entered the public domain. Once a work was published, state law was divested, and one of two things happened. Ashcroft , 537 U.S.

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