In Fourth Estate Public Benefit Corporation v. Wall-Street.com, a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court held in March of this year that a copyright claimant can only commence ...

Today, the U.S. Supreme Court denied a petition for writ of certiorari filed by Dr. Stephen Thaler that challenged federal ...

Suppose that you want to register your copyright by preparing and filing a copyright application with the U.S. Copyright Office. What if you were unaware that you ...

“Once resolved, copyright owners will know what is required before being able to sue…” On Thursday, June 28, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a case that should resolve the long-standing question ...

Under current U.S. copyright law, registration of the copyright in a work is not necessary to create the copyright itself. To the contrary, copyright is created the moment the work is fixed in a ...

Technically, any work that can be copyrighted is copyrighted as soon as that work is fixed in a tangible medium. However, copyright registration provides important benefits, such as the ability to ...

3. Registration provides significant remedies If you register your software after an infringement occurs, your potential remedies will include actual damages to the extent provable and any profits of ...

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The Copyright Office’s registration system is back online after going dark for more than a week, according to the subagency’s website. The eCO system — which ...