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Best practices to avoid copyright infringement

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

There’s a significant probability that someone already owns the rights to the content even if you cannot locate an explicit declaration stating that it is intended for public use. It would be preferable to obtain written authorization from the copyright owners before using the original content. Document right to use.

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Federal Circuit Narrows Scope for Copyrighting Software Function

Patently-O

In particular, the court first assumed that the work was copyrightable based upon the registration documents. WPL established that an earlier version of the SAS System, “SAS 76,” was in the public domain. WPL demonstrated that the SAS Language should be filtered because it is open and free for public use.