Copyright on the Internet
Posted by: Steve Andreadis
A new Copyright Office video details how you can share material you find on internet without infringing on other's copyright.
Posted in: Copyright, fair use, Uncategorized, video
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Copyright Office’s Learning Engine Video Series on YouTube
Posted by: Steve Andreadis
The U.S. Copyright Office's Learning Engine YouTube series will instruct viewers on copyright and the Copyright Office.
Posted in: Copyright, Inside the Copyright Office, Uncategorized, video
Copyright Office Debuts Electronic Title List Validator
Posted by: Steve Andreadis
The U.S. Copyright Office released a new tool that will help remitters catch errors in their electronic title lists before submission.
Posted in: Copyright, recordation, Uncategorized
New Learning Edge Series Video: What Is Copyright?
Posted by: Steve Andreadis
In the short time I’ve been part of the U.S. Copyright Office, I’ve had several conversations that follow this same general scenario: “You work for the Copyright Office? Isn’t that where every copyright in America is registered? Should I go there with my idea that I want to protect? Will they take a family recipe?” …
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Decreased Processing Times for Copyright Registrations
Posted by: George Thuronyi
The following is a guest post by Robert J. Kasunic, Associate Register of Copyrights and director of Registration Policy & Practice. At the beginning of October, the Copyright Office updated our Registration Processing Times and FAQ, found on our registration portal, to reflect significant decreases in the time it takes us to review copyright registration …
Posted in: Copyright, Registration, Uncategorized
New Fees Proposed for U.S. Copyright Office Services
Posted by: Karyn A. Temple
Let’s talk about fees. Not everyone’s favorite topic, I’ll admit, but it’s something the Copyright Office could not operate without. Yesterday, the Copyright Office delivered our Fee Schedule and Analysis to Congress. Every three to five years, the Office engages in an in-depth study of our fees to determine whether to adjust them. To be …
Posted in: Copyright, fees, Register of Copyrights, Uncategorized
Next Steps in the Music Modernization Act
Posted by: Karyn A. Temple
If asked, many of us would easily be able to identify our favorite song or tune, and often to even quote verbatim (e.g., sing embarrassingly off-key) the actual bridge, melody, or lyrics that made that song so special. Whether it is the way a song made us laugh or reflected our innermost desires and fears, …
Posted in: Copyright, music, Register of Copyrights, Uncategorized
The Life of a New Registration Specialist
Posted by: Ashley Tucker
For a deeper dive into the Office’s recent efforts to successfully improve registration pendency times, as well as a historical look at registration, see the Office’s response to Congressional letters received on March 14 and April 3 regarding registration processing times. I was very excited to be selected as one of the twenty-five examiners hired …
Posted in: Registration, Uncategorized
Copyrighting Leaves of Grass
Posted by: Alison Hall
Not only is the Library of Congress celebrating the 200th anniversary of Walt Whitman’s birth all month, but May is also the anniversary of Leaves of Grass, one of Whitman’s best-known works. Walter Whitman (as he called himself then) registered his copyright for the first edition of Leaves of Grass on May 15, 1855, in …
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