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Filing Copyrights: How and Why or Just Do It!

August 8, 2009

by Joshua J. Kaufman (Venable)

By Joshua J. Kaufman, Esq. © 1999-2009 Almost every day an artist or writer calls my office with a 100-percent, knock-down, dead-on, no-lose copyright infringement case- and I have to tell them it is not worth their while. Even in those situations in which there is no question that someone reproduced artwork without authorization or exceeded the license provided to them and that the artist owned the rights- even when the infringer admitted the infringement- I still have to turn down the ca...

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User-Generated Content, Online Fair Use and the DMCA's 'Good Faith' Requirement

January 21, 2009

by Michael J. Remington (Drinker Biddle & Reath) and
Philip J. Cardinale (Drinker Biddle & Reath)

Reproduced with permission from BNA's Patent, Trademark & Copyright Journal, 77 PTCJ 351 (Feb. 6, 2009). Copyright 2009 by The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc. (800-372-1033) <http://www.bna.com>   Copyright law has always provided a balance between the proprietary rights of copyright owners and freedom of speech. The law ‘‘contains built-in First Amendment accommodations.’’ Eldred v. Ashcroft, 537 U.S. 186, 219, 65 US...

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