In today’s fascination with social media and posting videos featuring individuals performing all sorts of things, copyright laws have become a hot topic. For example, log on to YouTube and there are millions of hopeful stars doing their version of their favorite artist’s song. As flattering as this may be, is it a copyright infringement? […]
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Do you need a trademark, a patent or a copyright?
Are you an inventor? Do you always try and come up with a better way to do something? Or maybe you are creative and enjoy writing or photography. Whatever your interest is, if you are creating something, tangible or intangible, you will want to protect it from others cashing in on your work. The problem […]
A copyright for music that may also pertain to cars
Copyrights are primarily used to protect creative ventures like music, books, paintings and the such. So reading that there may be a copyright law protecting music that also protects cars is interesting to say the least. What would be the connection between the two? Have you ever heard of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of […]
Why Is It Essential To Have A Copyright?
A copyright is an exclusive and legitimate right that is given to a creator or author to write, print, publish, film, record or perform any musical, literary, or artistic content or material. It also gives a person, party or entity legal ownership of any work they produce. A copyright is a federal law in the […]
Intellectual Property Laws and Musicians
Musicians can slog away for months in order to write a good song and then compose the music for it. It is indeed an incredibly emotionally draining exercise that can hardly be comprehended by anyone who has never worked in that industry and considering the competition for being at the top of the charts, one […]
A War of Words
Legal disputes over intellectual property can get pretty dicey; particularly when one of the parties has made boatloads of money with the product in question. Take The Da Vinci Code case for instance, officially known as Baigent & Leigh v Random House Group Ltd. In 2003, bestselling author Dan Brown penned The Da Vinci Code. […]
What is Intellectual Property?
If someone asked you about Intellectual Property, would you know what they were talking about? Would you think it was a smartly built house? Maybe one of those smart phones? You would be wrong if those were your guesses. Intellectual property has to do with creations of the mind. A painting by Van Gogh would […]
The Process of Obtaining a Copyright
Obtaining a copyright is a process that will keep you entangled in red tape for months. Is this a true or false statement? Why not find out? That’s just what I did. I wanted to know just what went into obtaining a copyright for pictures I have taken. The first thing I did, as I […]
