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 ...

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 ...

On June 22, 2020, the United States Copyright Office amended its regulations to establish a new option for registration of short, online literary works that will go ...

Looking for a cheaper, easier way to register your copyright? The U.S. Copyright Office is currently restructuring their copyright registration procedures towards an ...

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 ...

Copyright owners will have to wait for the registration process to play out before suing for infringement, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday. Owners had ...

The process for obtaining copyright registration for a collection of works is generally similar to standard copyright registration procedures. When copyrighting a collection you need to show that your ...

Fall is in the air, and that means the October 2021 opening session of the U.S. Supreme Court is right around the corner. Once again, the court has an intellectual property case on its docket— ...