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It’s a day like any other. You’re working on your business. You’re in the zone. You’ve never even heard of a company called “PicRights.” 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 […]
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I’ll make it simple if you don’t want to read a long article: No. But read on for the nuances. Copyright and Images on the Internet Does copyright apply when you get an image off of the internet? Yes. Copyright is automatically granted to creators as soon as their original work is fixed in a […]
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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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