The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled copyright owners must register their copyrights before filing a lawsuit for copyright infringement. The decision resolves a conflict between certain federal appeals ...

Suppose that you want to register your copyright by preparing and filing a copyright application with the U.S. Copyright Office. What if you were unaware that you ...

With the fee hike, independent creators could lose access to the Copyright Claims Board, a more affordable way to pursue ...

The main reasons that registration is important are that the author cannot bring a civil action for infringement until it has registered the work and that the author cannot recover statutory damages ...

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Craig Wright, the Australian entrepreneur who recently and controversially filed copyright registrations for the bitcoin white paper and original code, now has a legal rival. A second copyright ...

On May 29, 2020, the Ninth Circuit continued the trend of courts more closely scrutinizing the plaintiff’s compliance with registration formalities in copyright infringement lawsuits. Registration ...

Fourth Estate v. Wall-Street.com is one of two copyright cases on the Supreme Court’s January argument calendar. (The other case, Rimini Street v. Oracle, will be argued on January 14.) Both cases ...

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Late last month, Marvel preregistered the first episode of Ironheart with the United States Copyright Office. The filing includes the Disney+ series’ cast list ...