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 ...

Carl Malamud, a long-time advocate for increasing public access to government information, testifies before Congress this morning. This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or ...

This week, the Supreme Court resolved a split in the circuits regarding an issue in copyright law that affects copyright owners in California. Until now, the law in the Ninth Circuit was that a ...

As a copyright owner, it is for you to decide how—or whether—to license use of your work. An exclusive license could be granted, which enables the licensee to use the copyrighted work to the exclusion ...

Under current U.S. copyright law, registration of the copyright in a work is not necessary to create the copyright itself. To the contrary, copyright is created the moment the work is fixed in a ...

Trademarks and logos are big business, and there are many unscrupulous people out there ready to steal or infringe on your creative intellectual property. Companies such as Apple spend incredible ...