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5 Reasons Photographers Should Build Copyright Registration into the Budget
It's affordable. As an afterthought, any kind of fee might seem pricey. But when you’re planning a project, accommodating less ...

Taking Action: DMCA Takedown & Responding to the Infringer of Your Work
When you discover an unauthorized use of your work on a website, there are often two separate but related steps ...

Understanding Limit of Claim in Copyright Registration
When you submit an application to register your work, the Copyright Office asks you to state what you authored and ...

Tepp to Speak on NY Times v. OpenAI
On Tuesday, March 12 at Noon EDT, RightsClick co-founder Steve Tepp will join a panel discussing the copyright case NY ...

Do You Have To Put the © On Your Work?
The “c” in a circle: © is is a world-famous symbol, and yet it is no longer required for protecting ...

Did You Publish Photographs in 2023?
As the year draws to a close, we want to remind photographers in particular about group registration of published photographs ...
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