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Copyright registration needed to publish?
As gnasher729 says, you are not required to register your copyright in order to publish, but that's not the end of the story. In many jurisdictions, you are required to submit a few copies of your ...
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What duty does the grantee of a license have to ascertain that granter holds the copyright or appropriate license?
You have strict liability for infringement of copyright whether you knew that the work was infringing or not (although due diligence could avoid punitive damages for willful infringement, or criminal ...
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Is this a derivative/copyright violation?
There must be substantial similarity between two works in order for there to be infringement. It is quite clear that such similarity is lacking in these images. All similarity that exists can be ...
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Can a public domain character be subject to trademarks?
Yes
Some notable examples of characters not subject to copyright in at least some jurisdictions but active trademarks are:
Note that the works these particular representations of those characters are ...
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Can a public domain character be subject to trademarks?
Yes - I’m posting a screenshot of the USPTO TESS database after a search for “little tramp”, Charlie Chaplin’s character.
The two issued trademarks are now dead but they were issued.
Details of first ...
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What is the copyright status of this piece of code from 1976?
Strangely enough, I recently had the very same question about the very same code. My understanding from reading Volume 1 up to this point was that, at least in these early days of DDJ, the published ...
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Is it legal to reproduce a print of a book that was printed before being published?
The author holds all the exclusive rights of copyright in the 2021 work, subject to licencing, assignment, or fair use or fair dealing.
The dominant copyright paradigm in the world is the regime ...
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Copyright registration needed to publish?
You are the copyright holder if you are the author, or your company is the copyright holder if you wrote the book as an employee. That is completely unrelated to registration. You can even create a ...
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Burden of proof in intellectual property disputes involving generative media
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There are several procedural pathways for a party to ask a court to hold that particular entity 'A' has no copyright interest in a work. I can think of four:
a party 'B' seeking a declaration ...
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Can AI images be copyrighted by the person who creates them?
There is no copyright in AI generated art
Copyright requires an author and authors have to be human. See Who if anyone owns copyright of algorithmically produced works?
Modification
You can, of course,...
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Permissions of photos that you take
You don't mention where you're thinking of registering copyright. There might be some country where there is an exception, but in general the copyright office doesn't go into details such as this. ...
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Do we need to track all changes for a second edition?
Two other answers have already said as much, but perhaps it bears a simpler restatement:
No. When you register copyright for a second edition, you must deposit a complete copy of the second edition ...
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Do we need to track all changes for a second edition?
You don't need to apply for copyright. You write it, you have the copyright. Or you write it as an employee for your company, your company owns the copyright. You can then apply to register the ...
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sharing of any revenue
Under US copyright law (17 USC 201, "The authors of a joint work are coowners of copyright in the work". Barring an explicit agreement to the contrary, each author of a joint work shares an ...
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Is this a derivative/copyright violation?
Clearly not derived from your photo. They got someone to mount some hardware and took a photo of it. Probably never seen your photo.
Even in the most extreme case - someone took your photo, studied it ...
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How would a finding of copyright breach affect third parties using data derived from the breach?
You assert the following relevant premises:
the only breach of copyright was the copying that occurred during the training process;
the ultimate output is non-infringing (you mention "a ...
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What should be done if one or more, but not all, of the contributors to a Wikipedia article require removal of attribution?
Bob has the right to grant permission to copy his joint works. Copyright requires permission to copy, not the lack of prohibition, so Eve does not have veto power over Bob's copyright. CC BY-SA 4.0 is ...
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Are derivatives of public domain settings less distinctive than of copyright-protected ones?
Are derivatives of public domain settings less distinctive than of copyright-protected ones?
Maybe, but without more detail, the legal relevance of this fact is unclear.
If a work is independently ...
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