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It’s a day like any other. You’re working on your business. You’re in the zone. And then, you get a letter. In this letter, it says that you’ve infringed on a copyright by posting some photo to your website back in 2016. And that letter is demanding $2500 in licensing fees. What on Earth? You […]
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Historically, the expense of litigating a copyright dispute has been a major roadblock to creators enforcing their rights in copyrighted material. However, the launch of the new Copyright Claims Board (“CCB”), colloquially referred to as a “copyright small claims court,” aims to address that issue– and it just started taking cases as of June 17, […]
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When we think about copyright infringement, most of the time we default to thinking about “Person A suing Person B” for infringing their copyrighted materials. That’s a civil lawsuit. But copyright law also carries some sharp penalties in the criminal realm too– think “the State vs. Person B.” The federal government can prosecute criminal copyright […]
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The Supreme Court is clear: you should register copyrights before you have a problem. On March 4, 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that copyright owners must before filing a lawsuit for copyright infringement. This resolved a conflict– a “circuit split”– between courts that disagreed on whether (i) copyright owners must simply apply for copyright registration […]
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