The copyright office can copyright register and protect 'creative works of authorship fixed in a tangible medium of expression.' This can include all sorts of creating things like lyrics for a song, a ...

(b) In no case does copyright protection for an original work of authorship extend to any idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery, regardless of the ...

It happens way too often. A website owner or employee innocently downloads to their website a photograph or some other work to illustrate or explain some aspect of the owner’s business. Or, its use ...

A recent SDNY federal court decision has led to new copyright liability concerns among website owners and their counsel. Those concerns are shared by, inter alia, various media, public policy and ...

Recently, a track called "Heart on My Sleeve" by an unknown TikTok user named Ghostwriter (or "@ghostwriter977") appeared out of nowhere and went viral across various social media platforms, reaching ...

The U.S. Copyright Office has launched a Web tool to help identify who owns copyrights to movies, books and other works. The massive database serves as a foundation ...

The owner of a website does not require authorization of the copyright holder to link to freely accessible copyright works on another site, even if Internet users get the impression that the work is ...

Embedding a social media post allows websites to share content without hosting the content themselves – but is such a tool a violation of copyright? A photographer wants the US Supreme Court to ...