In The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit No. 94-1778 PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS, MACMILLAN, INC., and ST. MARTIN’S PRESS, INC.Plaintiffs-Appellees v. MICHICAN DOCUMENT SERVICES, INC., and JAMES M. SMITH, Defendents-Appellants. ON APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN BRIEF AMICI CURIAE OF […]
Sotheby’s International Realty commissioned Plaintiff to photograph Lugalla, an Irish estate owned by the Guinness family. Plaintiff took seven photographs of the property, and Lugalla was subsequently listed for sale. On March 7, 2017, Hear…
OverDrive, a digital reading platform, belonged to International Digital Publishing Forum, a trade association dedicated to the development of electronic publishing standards. International’s members developed EPUB, the leading eBook format….
The Ninth Circuit affirmed the district court’s dismissal, for failure to state a claim, of an action brought by Great Minds, publisher of math curriculum Eureka Math. The complaint alleged a claim of copyright infringement against Office De…
The public meeting has been postponed until Dec. 12, but the public comment deadline remains the same, Nov. 13th. The Department of Commerce is soliciting input on the Internet Policy Task Force’s green paper, “Copyright Policy, Creativity, and Innovation in the Digital Economy,” produced by the USPTO and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). Questions […]
Chapter 131 1301. Designs protected 1302. Designs not subject to protection 1303. Revisions, adaptations, and rearrangements 1304. Commencement of protection 1305. Term of protection 1306. Design notice 1307. Effect of omission of notice 1308. Exclusive rights 1309. Infringement 1310. Application for registration 1311. Benefit of earlier filing date in foreign country 1312. Oaths and acknowledgments […]
Chapter 91 901. Definitions 902. Subject matter of protection 903. Ownership, transfer, licensing, and recordation2 904. Duration of protection 905. Exclusive rights in mask works 906. Limitation on exclusive rights: reverse engineering; first sale 907. Limitation on exclusive rights: innocent infringement 908. Registration of claims of protection 909. Mask work notice 910. Enforcement of exclusive […]
Circular 92 The Constitutional Provision Respecting Copyright The Congress shall have Power … To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries (United States Constitution, Article I, Section 8) This volume contains the text of title 17 […]
SUBSEQUENT HISTORY: Plaintiff Filed a Petition for Certiorari on February 20, 1974. SYLLABUS: ON THE PROOFS Copyrights; infringement; photocopying; “fair use”; scientific and medical needs. — This is an action brought under the provisions of 28 U.S.C. @ 1498(b) by a major publisher of medical journals which charges that the Department of Health, Education and […]
Is it Still in Copyright? University of California. Samuelson Law, Technology and Policy Clinic. Flow chart and Handbook: Is it in the Public Domain? Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States by Peter Hirtle Stanford’s Copyright Renewal Database Check to see if select works (publ. 1923-1963) were renewed. Digital Copyright Slider by Michael Brewer, American […]
