By Luis ArroyoYou may have heard of works that are in the public domain being used as new products by entrepreneurs today. This is a great way to start a business, or to improve the overall bottom line of an existing business.Work that is in the public...
Monday, January 10, 2011
Sunday, January 9, 2011
Copyrights: You Can Preregister Your Work
By Frederic Douglas People often ask how to "copyright" their work, be it music, a novel, a website, a software application, or many other works. They recognize that they should register a copyright to receive proper compensation, respect, or at least...
Saturday, January 8, 2011
Plagiarism - Different Ways How You Can Avoid Plagiarism
By Suryaratna Chandrashekar Plagiarism is the process of copying a person's idea or written work and claiming it as their original. This is just one definition for it, but at the core of it is cheating. In most countries, it is considered illegal. It...
Friday, January 7, 2011
Copyright Law: An Overview
By J M Dawson Copyright law is a property protection law that protects any type of literary property, such as literary work, music, films, sound recordings, artistic work, and dramatic work of the original writer or creator. The law comes into action...
Thursday, January 6, 2011
When Is Music Sharing Illegal?
By James Witherspoon Sharing music through the Internet has become enormously popular around the world, especially on college campuses. Online piracy of music is defined as uploading a copyrighted sound recording to the Internet for others to download...
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Some Business Owners Are Unaware That If They Play Music in Their Business They Need a Licence
By Stewart SpencerIf a business includes music in its products or in their telephone on-hold system they need clearance from the owners of the music. They should be aware that penalties exist for non-compliance. This also applies to Wedding Videos, School...
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Is a Jailbroken iPhone Exempt From Prohibition Against Technology Circumvention of DRM?
By Rick Michaud Apple was recently at the center of a controversy with the DMCA. They asserted the "jailbreaking" of their iPods and iPhones in order to allow users to access applications not available through and approved by Apple to be a violation...
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Copyrights: You Can Preregister Your Work
By Frederic Douglas People often ask how to "copyright" their work, be it music, a novel, a website, a software application, or many other works. They recognize that they should register a copyright to receive proper compensation, respect, or at least...
Plagiarism - Different Ways How You Can Avoid Plagiarism
By Suryaratna Chandrashekar Plagiarism is the process of copying a person's idea or written work and claiming it as their original. This is just one definition for it, but at the core of it is cheating. In most countries, it is considered illegal. It...
Copyright Law: An Overview
By J M Dawson Copyright law is a property protection law that protects any type of literary property, such as literary work, music, films, sound recordings, artistic work, and dramatic work of the original writer or creator. The law comes into action...
When Is Music Sharing Illegal?
By James Witherspoon Sharing music through the Internet has become enormously popular around the world, especially on college campuses. Online piracy of music is defined as uploading a copyrighted sound recording to the Internet for others to download...
Some Business Owners Are Unaware That If They Play Music in Their Business They Need a Licence
By Stewart SpencerIf a business includes music in its products or in their telephone on-hold system they need clearance from the owners of the music. They should be aware that penalties exist for non-compliance. This also applies to Wedding Videos, School...
Is a Jailbroken iPhone Exempt From Prohibition Against Technology Circumvention of DRM?
By Rick MichaudApple was recently at the center of a controversy with the DMCA. They asserted the "jailbreaking" of their iPods and iPhones in order to allow users to access applications not available through and approved by Apple to be a violation of...
Beware of Copyright Infringement When Recording Sound Effects
By Alan M McKinney Copyright is a set of rights assigned to the owner/creator of a piece of original work. Those rights are assigned automatically upon creation of the work. For the sound recordist and designer, these rights are essential in order to...
More Powerful Than A Locomotive - Terminating Copyright Grants
By Dana Newman and Miles J. Feldman In 1938, two young, aspiring comic book creators from Ohio, Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster, sold the rights to their "Superman" comics to DC Comics for $130.00. Hundreds of millions of dollars later -- after countless...
Q & A Regarding Important Information For Musicians and Copyrights, How Safe Is Their Original Work?
By Rick MichaudExample a band has 12 songs licensed to 6 different licensing companies resulting in the original copyright by the authors and 6 different registrations by the licensing companies who have re-titled the songs.For example, if one learns...
What Is the Most Important Requirement of a Trademark?
By Wendy Moyer Because a trademark has to be able to identify particular goods or services the most important requirement for a trademark is that it is distinctive. That is the only way that the trademark of one company can be distinguished from that...
Anti-Copyright - An Interesting Dilemma
By Rishad SukhiaAlthough the legal principles governing the concept of intellectual property (IP) have existed for centuries, it was the wake of the 19th Century that brought about the term "intellectual property" and only in the 20th Century did it...
How To Copyright a Service
By Napoleon Hill So you're thinking of going into business for yourself, and you know that you have a service so unique that it's going to be a huge success. Or you already own a business, and you've come up with an idea how to provide an additional...
How to File Copyright Application in India
By Ramaswami NatarajanCopyright is one of the forms of Intellectual Property. Under copyright, the creative works of literacy, artistic, musical and producers of cinematography films and sound recordings can be registered.All these intellectual works...
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