Termination Information Part 1: What the Friday the 13th Decision Means for Screenwriters and Other Authors This is the first in a series of blog posts discussing termination rights – authors’ rights under the Copyright Act to retrieve their copyrights they previously assigned. For past articles about termination rights and the myriad issues they entail, see here and here where
Mark Jaffe, Managing Partner of TorMark Law, is interviewed by Rita Anwiri Chindah on #IPSERIES about fair use and the Tracy Chapman, Nicki Minaj copyright infringement lawsuit. Listen to the interview here
I was inspired to write this post by Hootie and the Blowfish, who are mired in unfortunate circumstances because they let their trademark registration lapse. Their misfortune is a good learning moment for others in their trademark strategy. For those who are too young to know about them, or too cool to admit it, Hootie and the Blowfish were huge
From Mark Jaffe’s Twitter: I was asked a couple of times: because you need registration to sue for copyright infringement, does a copyright really have any value if it’s not registered? The answer is yes, it most definitely does. To recap, copyright protection exists at the moment you create the work. But before you can sue for copyright infringement, the
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Last month, the Supreme Court resolved a circuit split, holding that under the Copyright Act, the Copyright Office must have granted registration to the plaintiff’s copyright before the plaintiff can sue. Fourth Estate Pub. Benefit Corp. v. Wall-Street.com. The Fourth Estate decision was neither ground-breaking nor surprising. It was a reasonable interpretation of 17 U.S.C. §411, which requires registration of
For the majority who would read a long series of tweets, this will be posted to twitter, for those who prefer to read on a blog. Here it is. Of course, it was still written for twitter, so please forgive the use of twitter-grammar. As promised, here’s a thread scratching the surface on sound recording copyrights, termination rights under the
Determining Authorship in a Sound Recording This article by Mark Jaffe was originally published in the Journal of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A. on December 8, 2005.
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Trust Machine: The Story Of Blockchain Screenings in LA Tor will be participating in the Friday and Saturday Q&A panels following the screenings. Friday screening has sold out! Grab your tickets now to join us November 16th, and 17th Directed by award-winning documentarian Alex Winter and narrated by Rosario Dawson. TRUST MACHINE drills down on #blockchain technology. Why are banks
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