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The Definition of Copyright

Copyright is a legal matter, which is backed up by the majority of governments throughout the world. It gives the exclusive rights to the original creator of any work. A copyright is your right to your copy. You have the right to make copies, to sell your work, to share it, etc. No one else […]

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Piracy – What Not To Do To Stop It

Recently Viacom embarked on a program of litigation against YouTube for copyright infringement. The sums sounded quite astonishingly high. The question here of course is whether YouTube which offers a free video posting service, is the culprit at all. Surely YouTube is purely the storage place? If you were renting out factory space to people […]

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The Duration of Copyright Explained

Could copyright get any more complicated? There are so many factors that play into the laws governing each work, and determining the duration of copyright is no exception. As a general rule for countries who are signatories of the Bern Convention (over 100 countries are members of this convention), the minimum duration of copyright is […]

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What Makes a Character Brand Licensable?

It is very easy to think that character design alone determines the success and failure of a character brand and how many licensing and merchandising deals it can garner. In actuality, the very first criteria for merchandising opportunities is mass exposure before anything else. Licensing agents and manufacturing companies are often opposed to taking on […]

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Book Hijacking

Book hijacking is reproducing books to sale illegally. Hijacking can happen in book industry, movie industry and music industry. Other industry has hijack too, but there is not very massive like that industry. Book Hijacking becomes big problem for publisher and author or singer. Publisher and author will lost and never get money from there. […]

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When Do Independent Contractors Own A Copyright On Their Work?

Recently, several different potential copyright clients inquiring whether they had a case for intentional copyright violation of their work have approached me. They all had similar stories. They worked as volunteers, interns or independent contractors for various companies. While working with those companies, they each created an original work in a tangible medium. They were […]

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