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Copyright Transfer - Read the Fine Print Even on the Web

While you might think that you are safe from transfering your copyright when using the web to transmit your images, be careful. Although a copyright transfer must be in writing and signed by the copyright owner, the law has caught up with technology. You now can “sign” a document by responding electronically. A contract may be in any memorandum form, including electronic mail. It is “signed” by any mark, written, stamped or engraved, that demonstrates the intent to agree to the contract. So read the fine print before transmitting your images on the web to protect your copyrights.


Lessons Learned - Register Your Copyright Before You Go To Court

Copyrights are created at the click of the shutter. But to enforce your rights in court for infringement claims, you must first register your copyright before you bring suit in federal court. Period. It doesn't matter when the infringement is committed or the registration is completed, you still must register before filing suit.


Copyright Licensing Issues

When you own a copyright to a photograph, you have complete and exclusive control of how it is reproduced, displayed and distributed. These rights may be assigned, sold, transferred or given away. If you decide to authorize others to use your copyright, also known as licensing, you may want to consider certain important items.


Licensing Your Copyrighted Works

If you’ve taken the necessary steps to register your copyrighted works, you inevitably will have an opportunity to royalties off of them. To take advantage of the opportunity, you will need to be familiar with copyright license agreements.


Copyright Theft - Fraud Gone Rampant

Copyright theft is the scourge of software and ebook authors who sell online, and for the legitimate internet marketers who try to sell their products. It is not easy for an individual to deal with the scale of this, but when a large number of internet marketers get together to pursue a thief, better results are likely.


FAQs - Copyright

Many people seem to think that putting a copyright notice on their work protects their rights. They are only partly right. Registering the copyright is an important step.


How to Copyright a Screenplay

Learn about the best ways to protect your original works against theft. Don't be a victim of the predators that are out there looking to steal your content.


How to Copyright a Screenplay (Part 2)

Learn about the best ways to protect your original works against theft. Don't be a victim of the predators that are out there looking to steal your content.


You Own the Copyright

You own the copyright to your photos. However, if you sell your images outright to an agency, or if you are a contract photographer, you may be relinquishing your rights to your images, in which case the agency can modify your photo in any way they wish


Google, YouTube and Copyright

In a rather stunning move, Google recently purchased the popular video site YouTube The question many are asking is how Google will deal with the potential copyright violations on the site?


Protecting your Website's Images from Stealing: Is it Really Possible?

It is simply not possible to prevent someone from copying your website images. If someone is skilled and determined there's no way to stop them from abusing your website and your content. But there's still light in the end of the tunnel. You can use some semi-sophisticated techniques to limit the amount of people that can copy your website's images. Keep reading.


Online Piracy

Online piracy has developed along with technological advancements. The increasing broadband speed available to home user at low price and the development of new software had brought online downloading to a whole new level of high speed and superb quality.


Copyright Infringement Essay

This essay is aimed to analyze what copyright infringement is, study its types and problems connected with copyright infringement. First of all let us find out how copyright infringement is defined. It is usually understood as the use of copyrighted material in a way that violates the exclusive rights of the author of the copyrighted material.


Viacom and YouTube Dispute – All About Copyright Licensing

Viacom has announced the first huge copyright infringement notice against YouTube. It has served YouTube with notice to remove 100,000 infringing videos.


Implied Licenses and Ownership of Intellectual Property Rights in the United Kingdom

In Robin Ray v Classic FM, the English High Court held that a contractor providing services owns the intellectual property in the materials created for the client. The decision is a useful guide to contractors as it is one of the leading cases in determining the whether a commissioner of intellectual property may use intellectual property for purposes not expressly contemplated by a written agreement.


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