Some Free Legal Advice: Why You Should Register Your Copyrights and Trademarks (2011)
Friday, 05 August 2011
The failure to register copyrights and trademarks is the very definition of penny-wise and pound foolish. Many clients leave many law offices frustrated, particularly in copyright matters, because despite the apparent validity of their claims, they just cannot afford to enforce their rights if they neglected to register their creative works. The irony of this
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Tasini Update: Supreme Court Holds that Section 411(a) Registration Requirement is not Jurisdictional (2010)
Wednesday, 05 May 2010
Earlier this month, the Supreme Court held in Reed Elsevier, Inc. v. Muchnick, that the registration requirement in section 411(a) of the Copyright Act is not jurisdictional. In a continuation of the Tasini case (involving electronic rights to freelance articles written for newspapers and magazines) the Reed Elsevier Court was faced with the question of whether a class settlement involving the