Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JULY 19, 2022

However, authors are not required to make their work accessible to the public. Even so, unpublished works are safeguarded by the same copyright regulations. Additionally, creators are not needed to file a copyright registration with the US Copyright Office. Recognize the subtleties of fair use.

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Patently-O

APRIL 6, 2023

In that case, the Court found that Google’s use of Java API naming conventions in its Android operating system was fair use under copyright law. Because its fair use decision decided the case, the court did not rule separately on whether the API was even copyrightable in the first place.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 5, 2022

In this case, the Supreme Court of Texas held that a government entity may reproduce, display, and utilize a copyrighted work for its own benefit without paying any compensation to the copyright owner. The government is not using the patent, but the patented technology. That is just very different from ending a public franchise.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 10, 2024

Before the second amendment, President Trump received a copyright registration covering the work, despite an early registration being recorded in Woodward’s favor. It is strange because that would mean that the unpublished portions would also be government works available for public use. ’” Id.

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