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Tag: Copyright

Web Images Aren’t Always Free – The Case For Clearing Rights (2013)

Thursday, 15 August 2013 by Elliott Alderman
When you see an inviting Internet visual image which seems ripe for the taking, consider that it may not be freely available… Increasingly, I am being contacted by clients on the receiving end of copyright cease and desist letters based on their unlicensed use of visual images in digital works. Not clearing rights is simply
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  • Published in Copyright Law, Intellectual Property Law, Internet, Rights Clearance
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Fair Use: Without Harm to the Copyright Owner Can There Really be a Potential Market for a Work? (2010)

Monday, 05 July 2010 by Elliott Alderman
Copyright Act: Fair Use I recently represented a nonprofit client in what should have been a simple rights clearance matter. The client wanted to use short audio portions of music for educational purposes without having to license rights from the sound recording copyright owners. The contemplated use was transformative, the portions taken were quantitatively and
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  • Published in Copyright Law, Fair Use, Intellectual Property Law
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Tasini Update: Supreme Court Holds that Section 411(a) Registration Requirement is not Jurisdictional (2010)

Wednesday, 05 May 2010 by Elliott Alderman
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
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  • Published in Copyright Infringement Actions, Copyright Jurisdiction, Copyright Law, Copyright Registration, Intellectual Property Law, Section 411(a)
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Marilyn Monroe: Trade Dress From Whole Cloth? (2007)

Monday, 05 November 2007 by Elliott Alderman
Ideas and concepts, other than those that are not obvious and may be subject to patent protection, are generally freely available to all.  Trademark protection usually extends only to the owner’s use of a particular mark, including any logo or image. Yet a judge in the Northern District of California held recently that a trade dress owner
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  • Published in Copyright Law, Intellectual Property Law, Marilyn Monroe, Trade Dress, Trademark Law, Visual Images
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Phone: +1-202-596-5682
Email: elliott@thecontentlawyer.com
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Phone: +1-202-596-5682
Email: elliott@thecontentlawyer.com
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