Viacom, one of the world's biggest media company, owner of MTV, Paramount Pictures, BET, Comedy Central and others, is ambitiously expanding its online video presence. Like this new effort with Yahoo! Fortune magazine just published a story "Viacom's Plan to Be Cool Again." If Viacom is cool, it's also tough when it comes to protecting its intellectual property. It has taken YouTube to task in a $1 billion lawsuit filed earlier this year.
Copyright infringement can be a serious problem, especially for Info-marketers who are selling information, which other users can copy. It is important to know how to protect your work and how to make sure that the people you are working with are not plagiarizing anything they submit to you as original work....
Copyright is a legal fiction designed to protect the works of artists, inventors and innovators. In essence, it is a legal bar, allowing exclusivity for those who create works in the form of an intangible asset which can be sold or relinquished, and which expires upon a certain period of time. With the...
Protect your work from others who are copycats. Original content should always be copyrighted to avoid duplication by others....
Just because content on internet is free doesn\'t means that people can steal it and use it to their profit. Copyright infringement or internet hijacking is clearly a crime. You need to guard your content from being stolen....
Copyright protection relates to protection from copying your invented new work done. As the invention of online football games took centre stage, those behind this art, skill and ability to create new online soccer games needed legal protection from infringers through new technology though the invention of internet came with a lot of challenges to these rights. So they are legal though some could be accessed for free. Some people could make money from these free online football games through aff...
Every industry is laid low with the restraints of music copyright laws and the wedding business is no exception. With the increase in enforcement of those who commit copyright infringement, wedding pr......
Many countries have implemented protective measures to curb violations in copyright policies. This is a way of protecting the original works both published and unpublished. The original works of artists, musicians and other literary authors are protected by means of copyright. The original owner has exclusive rights to reproduce copies and distribute the content....
Few legal principles inspire more confusion than copyright law. Our copyright lawyers often spend as much time educating our clients as we do digging into their specific legal issues. Copyright law, like other intellectual property rights, is inevitably fact specific. Obtaining legal advice about your specific situation from a qualified copyright attorney is critical. Educating yourself about US copyright law so that you understand what your lawyer is telling you is just as important....
In my opinion, a serious author needs to copyright his work....
Just recently, thousands of internet users were sued by the Recording Industry Association of America or the RIAA...