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Photographers: Prevent Copyright Issues Before They Happen. Tie Licensing to Your Final Delivery
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There is a specific kind of anxiety that comes right after hitting “send” on a final gallery of images. You’ve put in the hours shooting, editing, and perfecting the…
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Copyright Office Proposes Major Fee Increases
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The U.S. Copyright Office has published a proposed regulation that would dramatically raise fees for all copyright registration applications. For example, the “standard” application is set to go up…
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Even Viral Video Creators Should Register their Copyrights Sometimes
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Content creators – TikTokers, YouTubers, and other viral video makers rarely care much about their copyright rights. Because revenue is driven by engagement rather than sale or licensing the…
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Photographer Teri Bloom Endorses RightsClick
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Photographer Teri Bloom started her career in New York’s East Village capturing icons of the 1980s music scene. And like many photographers whose early works predate the digital age,…
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Registration Guidance for Works Made Prior to 1978
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You’ve heard and perhaps repeated to others that copyright is automatic. We here at RightsClick always remind people that while that is technically true, registration with the Copyright Office…
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Copyright Registration for Screenwriters
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Copyright registration of your screenplay, especially if you write it on spec, is a good idea. But there are some common questions and considerations that we often seen from…
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Changes at Copyright Office & Effect on Registration
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You may be aware that in the past week there has been a change of leadership at the Copyright Office as well as its parent agency, the Library of…
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Timely Registration is Bargaining Power When Your Work is Misused
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Our friend Jonathan Bailey at Plagiarism Today describes a recent case decided by the Copyright Claims Board (CCB) in favor of real estate photographer Kimberly Mullin. The CCB is the small-claim…
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Copyright Registration & AI Training
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The search tool created by The Atlantic has revealed to the general public what professional creators have been fighting in court for some time now: the big AI companies have taken…
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Assistive AI Should Not Limit Protection Says Copyright Office
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It would be an understatement to say that developments in artificial intelligence (AI) have sent shockwaves through the creative fields. From the perspective of copyright law, AI raises many…