Archive for October, 2008
Don’t Transfer Your Copyright in Contribution to A Periodical Forever!
Monday, October 27th, 2008Short Term Transfers and Reassignments Can Insure Registration of all Works contained in a Collective Work In Parts 1 and 2, we discussed the importance of securing proper copyright registration to preserve important statutory remedies for copyright infringement. The need to register works is all the more urgent in the face of looming “orphan works” [...]
Changes in Registration Forms Impact Remedies for Photographers, Illustrators and Free Lance Writers
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008After many years, the Copyright Office has issued new registration form CO and ECO which replace forms for works of visual arts formerly registered on Form VA. A new question on the form contains an unsuspecting trap. For the first time, a claimant must identify material contained in the work not owned by the claimant, and which [...]
Authors Who Contribute to Collective Works Beware! Your Works May be Unregistered and Orphaned
Sunday, October 19th, 2008Are individual contributions of visual artists, including illustrators and photographers, as well as free lance writers, published in collective works such as newspapers, magazines, books, and on line data bases protected by copyright registrations for the collective works? If the author is the owner of the rights in his or her contribution at the time [...]