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Copyright
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Don't Sit On Your Copyright Infringement Claim!
When someone infringes your copyright, you have a limited time to make your claim. This is based on a legal principle called “statute of limitations.” If someone uses your photo without your permission, don’t sit on your claim.
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Do Your Part To Stop Copyright Infringement
Who's fault is it when someone uses your copyright without permission? Is it the website host? The computer company? The software company? Don't blame the messenger. Do your part to stop copyright infringement.
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Copyright Licensing Issues
When you own a copyright to a photograph, you have complete and exclusive control of how it is reproduced, displayed and distributed. These rights may be assigned, sold, transferred or given away. If you decide to authorize others to use your copyright, also known as licensing, you may want to consider certain important items.
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Joint Copyright Issues - When You Work With Someone Else
In general, when the shutter on a camera is tripped to make a photo, the photographer who pressed the button owns the copyright. But photographers often work with others when making their photographs, such as the art director, stylist, assistant or even the Photoshop editor. So does that person get to share with the photographer the copyright of the photograph? Be careful, or you may have to share the rights to that photo!
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Copyright Notice - Not Required But Helpful
You’ll often see a copyright “notice” – the familiar © or the word
“copyright” with a date and name of the copyright owner - posted on
works of authorship. This copyright notice is no longer required for
copyright protection, but it may be a good idea to use it.
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Copyright Infringement and the Funeral Industry
Many funeral home professionals are seeking other lower-cost options that will not force them to compromise on the quality of the more expensive funeral music and will still help them adhere to copyright infringement law.
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Musicians and Copyrights – What You Need To Know
As musicians and songwriters, we’ve all wondered what it takes to protect our creative output from theft or plagiarism. That’s the point when copywriting our work becomes a concern. Why would anyone want their hard work to go to waste if we could somehow protect our creative property?
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Why You Should Copyright Your Work
In this day and age of copy cat plagiarism one can never be too careful and yet we see it all the time, authors or website owners fail to put up that implied little Copyright Symbol. Some say it will not do any good and maybe they are right and yet without it, your work is as good as gone.
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Understanding Copyright
When you create original content, it is automatically copyrighted, but you should know about copyrights and how to specifically mark your work. Also, establishing the date of creation is very important.
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Myths About Copyright
Beware of these myths about copyrighted materials: If it doesn't have a copyright notice, it's not copyrighted.
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Online Piracy
Online piracy has developed along with technological advancements. The increasing broadband speed available to home user at low price and the development of new software had brought online downloading to a whole new level of high speed and superb quality.
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How To Protect What You Create With A Copyright
In the United States there are millions of people every year who create original music, research, or write books and other forms of creative expression. These are covered by the term intellectual property and are given protection under copyright laws. If you are a publisher, writer, or editor it is crucial that you are knowledgeable about copyright issues more than ever.
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How Intellectual Property Assets Affect Estate Taxes
Society is currently moving through a transition from a community whose wealth is based in tangible goods, such as the means of production, to a community whose true wealth lies in intangible forms of property.
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