Copyright Registration
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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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Using Photographs to Register Other Types of Visual Art
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A complete registration includes three elements: the application form, the application fee and a copy of the work being registered – known as a “deposit copy.” The basic idea…
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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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Where Does Registration Fit in the Photographer’s Workflow?
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“Make registration part of your workflow” is probably the most fundamental and important message we at RightsClick have for independent creators. This is especially true for the highest-volume creators…
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When to Register a New Version of a Work
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Ernest Hemingway famously said that “The only kind of writing is rewriting.” Whether creators agree with that rule, one question we hear frequently is, “When should I register a…