Registration is not required for valid copyright ownership, but it is required before you can bring a copyright infringement lawsuit. Section 411(a) of the Copyright ...

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 ...

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 ...

In Fourth Estate Public Benefit Corporation v. Wall-Street.com, a unanimous court held today that although the copyright statute confers exclusive rights upon the author of a work as soon as the work ...

WASHINGTON (CN) - Bringing a long-simmering issue to a close, the Supreme Court ruled Monday that copyright owners cannot sue for infringement until after the ...

The issue arises because the applicant here (Unicolors) made no factual errors in the application, but apparently made a legal mistake. Specifically, it filed a single application for 31 fabric ...