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...
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
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...
Copyright Protection Software
By Ramaswami NatarajanExamples: - programming language, test ware, application software includes videogames, device drivers includes disk drivers, printers, Compact Disc etc.Computer software is of three types namely system software, programming software...
Understanding Copyright Infringement
By Richard Trott Copyright is something that is very important when it comes to the protection of intellectual property. So basically, what is all the fuss around copyrighting? Well, to be short, it is a law that will protect any kind of work like literary...
India Copyright Law
By Ramaswami NatarajanThe copyright protection act 1957 is followed by the whole of India. It came in to force by the Central Government by notification in the official gazette. The main objective of the copyright act is to give protection to the owner...
International Copyright Protection
By Ramaswami NatarajanCopyright Intellectual Property can be protected at National and International. Copyright has international protection such as Berne convention, universal copyright convention, WIPO copyright Treaty, Rome convention, Brussels convention...
How Copyright Laws Fail Us When We Need Them Most
By Marilyn BontempoI used to worry about other people stealing my work. I do lots of different kinds of things so there is plenty to steal. In 35 years of being in business, I have produced plenty of exceptional photos, illustrations, graphic design,...
Things Most Articles Will Not Tell You About Public Domain
By Yvon Anderson There are some things that the copyright law does not cover certain works. Sure thing that the copyright law will not protect the titles of a movie, books or perhaps simple quotations because these things are free for all and can be...
Protect Your Songs - Music Does Get Stolen
By Peter Goldberger Many songwriters wonder if it's really that big a deal to worry about getting songs stolen.Why bother with copyright or song registration paperwork? My music is safe as soon as I write it down, right?Well, yes and no.True, actual...
Poor Man's Copyright - Musicians Beware of the Big Myth
By Peter Goldberger Ok, we've all heard about this "poor man's copyright" technique, right?We'll explain it once again, for those who have been living in caves, but before we do, you should know right off, IT DOESN'T WORK!NO COURT HAS EVER ACCEPTED THIS...
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