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Tips for Avoiding Copyright Infringement

The IP Law Blog

Further, only a modicum, or small amount, of creativity is required for copyright protection to attach. Many find it surprising, but there is no requirement to include a copyright notice on a work for the work to be protected by copyright law. The lack of a copyright notice does not give you permission to use the work.

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Tips for Avoiding Copyright Infringement

LexBlog IP

Further, only a modicum, or small amount, of creativity is required for copyright protection to attach. Many find it surprising, but there is no requirement to include a copyright notice on a work for the work to be protected by copyright law. The lack of a copyright notice does not give you permission to use the work.

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Nearly Every Person in Iraq is an Illegal Streaming Pirate, Sources Say

TorrentFreak

In Iraq, for example, tackling copyright infringement isn’t seen as a priority or a new phenomenon. As a result, “copyright notices” were sent to US bases and United States Central Command was put on high alert. At the end of 2021, the U.S. That has lead to some insightful results, also regarding Iraq.

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Movie Companies Sue Lawyer in Dispute Over Piracy Settlement Cash

TorrentFreak

In the event the named defendants agreed to settle, Hierl and his law firm were authorized to take a percentage of the settlement amount as their contingency fee and then send the balance to Millennium’s agent. For their part, the defendants view the situation quite differently.

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Understanding the CCB’s First Two Final Determinations (Guest Blog Post–Part 3 of 3)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

And the Copyright Claims Officer did not make a substantive determination; the case was merely settled. Prutton admitted to copying and said that his adult daughter had helped him with his website. (A Prutton also brings up the allegation that Oppenheimer has a long history of pursuing copyright litigation suits.

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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 not, the court may have to address several other interesting, rarely-litigated issues concerning the proper scope of copyright in recorded interviews. Based solely on the complaint that was filed, there are six major issues raised by the case: First, were the recorded interviews a copyright-eligible “work of authorship”?

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