Copyright Law, Music Law and why Ryan Adams was able to rerecourd a Taylor Swift album before Taylor Swift could.
What if you’ve been given a future right that you can’t exercise when the future becomes present because of what you didn’t do in the past, even though you couldn’t have done what you didn’t do in the past because it wasn’t the future? That’s how the statute of limitations can thwart a statutory right to get your copyrights back. If that didn’t make sense to you, you’re getting the point. So read on.
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 –…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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. Defusing-the-Time-Bomb-Once-Again_Mark Jaffe…