The copyright owner decides what their rights are for each work in a variety of ways based on how the copyright law defines their rights below. It is not necessary for the copyright to be registered ...

"This new Copyright Public Record System allows us to be more flexible in the information that we display and make searchable ...

In the United States, copyright laws don’t protect works solely created by machines. The office is working through protection for material in which a human contributed to its creation.

James Madison presumably wrote the clause in the Constitution that allows Congress to give copyrights to authors, but even Madison had his reservation. The founding fathers considered copyright a ...

If you do get alerts from your ISP and you're not actually torrenting anything, then it's probably time to secure your wireless network. It only takes a couple of steps to up the security on your ...

Access to diverse materials for Large Language Models (LLMs, AI) raises legal questions on fair use and copyright ...

Not only does U.S. copyright law protect works created by U.S. citizens, it also protects works protected by copyright laws in over 100 other countries around the world.

US copyright law allows an entity or an individual to protect tangible, original works — everything from music to film, from painting to sculpture, from photographs to works of literature, from ...

Even thereafter, for another 60 years or so, domestic laws continued to deny copyrights to non-American authors who first manufactured or published their works abroad, or who failed to satisfy the ...

Lengthy copyright terms in the U.S. have given corporations the ability "to keep the spigot turning on franchises that they've developed and that they depend on," said Michael Hiltzik, a business ...

Those creative works, and many others first published in 1924, all entered the public domain at the first of the year — and groups of Brigham Young University students are getting a chance to ...