A divided Supreme Court has held that works authored by legislatures or legislators in their legislative capacity are ineligible for copyright protection (Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, Inc.). The Copyright Act protects...more
4/30/2020
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The Copyright Act
On March 4, 2019, the Supreme Court held that copyright owners must wait to file an infringement suit until the Copyright Office has registered the work at issue. The decision in Fourth Estate Public Benefit Corp. v....more
3/5/2019
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Split of Authority ,
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Uniformity
Last November, Cooley issued an alert advising that the Copyright Office had implemented a new rule requiring all service providers sheltering under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) safe harbor to re-register in an...more
The Copyright Office is imposing new registration requirements on service providers in order to maintain their safe harbor protection under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA"). The new rule, effective as of December...more