The United States Copyright Office has announced that they are nearing the completion of the digitization of the Catalog of Copyright Entries with online availability through the Internet Archive. 645 CCE volumes are now available at http://www.archive.org/details/copyrightrecords/ ranging from the very first publication in 1891 up to and including 1978 and these cover all classes of works and [...]
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is a major player U.S. copyright law that has come to the forefront when, on appeal, the Second Circuit remanded the case Viacom International, Inc. v. YouTube, Inc., for further review of certain copyright issues. One of the major aspect of the DMCA are the safe harbor provisions that [...]
In the wake of the largest online political protest in history, both the House and Senate decided to postpone and ultimately kill both the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA). As a recap, both SOPA and PIPA were being discussed by Congress in the middle of January, and aimed to fight [...]
John Steinbeck’s only surviving son and sole grandchild were denied their petition for Certiori, which the US Supreme Court would have then proceeded to hear, for the second time. The ruling affects the royalties of such well known novels as “Tortilla Flat,” “Of Mice and Men” and “The Grapes of Wrath.” The issue was was [...]
Under 17 USC Section 1201(a)(1), the Librarian of Congress is required every three years to determine whether there are any classes of works that are exempted from the prohibition against circumvention of technology that effectively controls access to a copyrighted work. This provision is part of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (“DMCA”). On July 26, [...]
