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Tips for Avoiding Copyright Infringement

The IP Law Blog

Specifically, copyright protection attaches to the original, creative work when it is fixed in a tangible medium, such as when it is written, drawn, recorded digitally, or typed electronically. Further, only a modicum, or small amount, of creativity is required for copyright protection to attach.

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3 Count: Pulp Friction

Plagiarism Today

2: Possible Copyright Changes Could Mean More Money for Inuit Artists. Next up today, CBC News reports that, In Canada, the government is taking steps to introduce resale rights for artists in the country’s copyright law. 3: Now the Film Producers Sue AT&T and Verizon Over Allegedly Slack Copyright Policies.

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ISP Optimum Questions ‘Evidence’ For Billion Dollar Piracy Lawsuit

TorrentFreak

copyright law, Internet providers must terminate the accounts of repeat infringers “in appropriate circumstances.” This legal requirement remained largely unenforced for nearly two decades but a series of copyright infringement liability lawsuits, including a billion-dollar damages award against Cox, have shaken up the industry.

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Records Labels and ISP Seek Summary Judgments in Piracy Lawsuit

TorrentFreak

Under US copyright law, Internet providers must terminate the accounts of repeat infringers “in appropriate circumstances.”. Several major music industry companies including Artista Records, Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music, and Warner Records, have filed lawsuits against some of the largest U.S.

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Tips for Avoiding Copyright Infringement

LexBlog IP

Specifically, copyright protection attaches to the original, creative work when it is fixed in a tangible medium, such as when it is written, drawn, recorded digitally, or typed electronically. Further, only a modicum, or small amount, of creativity is required for copyright protection to attach.

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Foreign Works, US Rights: The 7th Circle of Copyright Hell?

Copyright Lately

The new lawsuit raises a host of complicated legal issues that, while exciting for copyright nerds like me, are often a nightmare to litigate. Key among them is the extent to which pre-1978 works first published abroad without proper copyright notice are still protected under U.S. copyright law. Copyright Office.

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Smells Like Copyright Infringement

IPilogue

copyright law, a particularly confusing subject for foreign works published before 1978. copyright law. publications of the translated work, which lacked both registration and copyright notice in Scott-Giles’ name. Copyright Act of 1909. is protected as a foreign work under U.S.