Category: Copyright

If you’ve written a book, you’ll want to protect your intellectual property by copyrighting it. Copyrighting your book can prevent others from using or reproducing your work without permission. In this blog post, we’ll discuss the steps you need to take to copyright your book. Before you can copyright your book, you need to make […]

As reported here by Fortune news media, the U.S. Copyright Office has announced that images created by artificial intelligence programs (“A.I.”) are not copyrightable. A.I. programs have, of course, been in the news lately given the public launch of A.I. online products like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Bing. ChatGPT has been famously writing quality college […]

The amount of fees that a Copyright Law Firm — like Revision Legal — will take from a copyright settlement depends on the fee arrangement agreed to between the client and the lawyers. Further, if litigation is filed, the U.S. Copyright Act allows for the prevailing party in the case to be awarded their “reasonable […]

Yes, generally, it is relatively easy for a copyright owner to file for copyright — this is called registering copyright — without the legal services of an experienced copyright law firm like Revision Legal. Registration of copyrights is done by the US Copyright Office, part of the Library of Congress. The process is — mostly […]

Registering copyrights for websites can be a bit tricky. The reason is that the U.S. Copyright Office does not recognize a website as a “copyrightable” work of authorship. That is, the Copyright Office distinguishes between the website — as a whole — from its content. The content of websites is fully copyrightable (assuming that the […]

DMCA stands for the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”). One of the most important features of the DMCA is that it provides a “safe harbor” for website owners against being sued for copyright violations when users, commenters, and posters upload copyrighted material onto a website. For example, assume you run a website and one of […]

The answer is: “yes, but not always.” In general, US copyright law allows the owner of an original work of authorship to prohibit the creation and display of derivative works without authorization. For example, if I write a marvelous novel, it is copyright infringement for someone to write and perform a theater production or make […]

Accidental or innocent copyright infringement occurs when copyright protections are violated without specific intent to commit infringement. Copyright law protects original works of authorship and allows the owner to prohibit copying, use, distribution, performance, public display and/or the making of derivative works without permission. Some of the most common circumstances when accidental/innocent copyright infringement happens […]

If you are the owner of material that is protected by copyright law, under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”), there is a procedure for demanding that your copyrighted material be taken down from an internet website or other places of publication. Generally, these are called “Takedown Notices.” Most internet providers and website hosting companies […]

A “Takedown Notice” is a tool for protecting intellectual property like copyrights and trademarks. As the name implies, a takedown notice is a demand that certain proprietary material be taken down from the internet or other public places. “DMCA” is an acronym referencing a federal statute enacted to protect copyrights in the internet age called […]