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Best practices to avoid copyright infringement

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

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 Even so, unpublished works are safeguarded by the same copyright regulations.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. Public domain resources as a starting point.

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Federal Circuit Narrows Scope for Copyrighting Software Function

Patently-O

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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The Good Get: Interviews, The Predicates Of Copyright Ownership, & Divorcing Subjects From Owning Copyright Content

LexBlog IP

Before the second amendment, President Trump received a copyright registration covering the work, despite an early registration being recorded in Woodward’s favor. Government by its officers and employees should not be subject to copyright” and fall “in the public domain.”