Copyrights
Learn how copyrights can protect your creative work and how to handle infringements, license agreements, and more.
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8 Basic Facts Every Musician Should Know About Copyright Law
You've worked long and hard on your original music. How can you keep others from using and profiting from your music without your consent? Here's what you need to know to protect yourself.
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Copyright Laws and School Performances
What are the legal ramifications of putting on a copyrighted play? Do you need copyright permission? Can you sell tickets to the play and take a profit? Is any of it legal? Let's go behind the scenes to find out of your school play is breaking the law.
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Christmas Carols & IP Rights
This holiday season, many of us download and play Christmas carols to our heart's content without any thought to copyright ownership. By downloading and playing these songs, are we infringing on the author's copyright protection? Check out this primer on intellectual property rights, including what's protected, how long it's protected for.
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Blogging and Intellectual Property Law
Following these guidelines can help you stay on the right side of the law and understand your own rights.
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E-Publishing and the Importance of Copyright
With the popularity of e-books and growth of the technology to support them, electronic publishing has become a lot easier. Yet with that ease and a wide open marketplace, it becomes even more important you take the necessary steps to protect your creative work with a copyright.
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The State of the 'Fair Use' Defense in the Art World
The great French Post-Impressionist painter Paul Gauguin once said, 'Art is either plagiarism or revolution.' More than 100 years later, this statement is still up for debate among artists, some of whose work is being found to infringe others' copyrights.
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Who Owns the Rights to Your Life Story?
An unknown, down on his luck fighter gets a shot at the big time against the reigning, legendary champ. Although the endearing underdog eventually loses by technical knockout, he dances toe-to-toe with the champ for 15 rounds, even knocking down one of the greatest pugilists ever along the way.
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The Copyright Commons: Works in the Public Domain
Many of us have looked at a piece of art, watched a movie, or listened to a popular song and thought of using it to create something new. Well…can you?
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Recapturing Copyrights: A Second Chance at Royalties
Many of the world's most famous musicians are getting a second chance at controlling their creations. Musicians like Bob Dylan and Eagles, might have their copyrights returned to the original artists. How this will ultimately affect the music industry remains to be seen.
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Court Confirms Architectural Drawings Protected by Copyright
Copyright is a form of protection provided by the laws of the United States to the authors of “original works of authorship” fixed in a tangible medium of expression. The U.S. Copyright Act identifies several categories of copyrightable works, including literary works, musical works, motion pictures, and other audiovisual works, and pictorial, graphic, and sculptural works.
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