by Administrator | Jan 6, 2022 | Public Domain
On January 1, over 400,00 sound recordings made prior to 1923 entered the public domain and are no longer protected by copyright. This includes many of the greatest recordings of the early jazz age. You can read more about these works as well as listen to some of the...
by Administrator | Sep 28, 2021 | Copyright
One of the features of the Copyright Act of 1976, which took effect on January 1, 1978, are provisions that allowed either a creator or a creator’s heirs to reclaim copyright ownership of rights that had been assigned by the creator. The purpose of these...
by Administrator | Aug 31, 2021 | Copyright, Fair Use
The case of Dr. Seuss v. ComicMix isn’t over yet. In December 2020, the Ninth Circuit overturned the district court ruling stating that ComicMix’s use of Dr. Seuss’ materials was fair use. The district court had made this ruling at the...
by Administrator | Aug 24, 2021 | Copyright, Legal Issues for Artists
In 2019, film producer Rick Allen, who had been recording the underwater excavation of Blackbeard’s Queen Anne’s Revenge since the 1990s, sued the State of North Carolina for copyright infringement after the state posted Allen’s images and video clips on its...
by Administrator | Aug 17, 2021 | Copyright
One of the rights provided under copyright law is the right to public display. This particular right is important for artists such as photographers and filmmakers as they make a living off of the ability to license their images and films for public...
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