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Copyright news and articles, posted 19 August 2019
Protecting Traditional Knowledge and Traditional Cultural Expressions
Legally Using Images in Libraries
Books; Reading and Posting Online: Caring, Sharing and Copyright
Copyright Make-Up Tips – How To Make a Lasting Impression
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has a lot of great free information. Some links you may want to visit:
- Directory of Intellectual Property Offices
- Frequently Asked Questions: Copyright
- Copyright-Related Topics
- WIPO-Administered Treaties
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We hope you find us a helpful resource for your copyright and licensing information needs. We constantly add to and update the content on our website. We offer close to 100 informative and practical copyright articles written in plain English.
Please feel free to link to any of our articles. Our most popular articles are:
- 6 Best Practices for Legally Using Google Images
- A Simple Guide to Copyright for Librarians
- Obtaining Copyright Permission to Use Digital and Online Content
Copyright news and articles, posted 5 August 2019
How To Avoid Copyright Infringement
The New Copyright Directive: Text and Data Mining (Articles 3 And 4)
Apollo 11 and The Copyright Connection
U.S. vs Canadian Copyright Law: Which Has Stronger Copyright Protection?
Repinning a Photo Infringes Copyright, Judge Rules
If It Looks Like a Duck, Quacks Like a Duck…
Our Most Popular Downloadable Guides
A Simple Guide to Copyright for Librarians: 15 Essential Facts and Tips
8 Essential Tips for Licensing Electronic Resources
6 Copyright Tips for Legally Using Google Images
Copyright news and articles, posted 22 July 2019
Tips For Developing A Copyright Policy
Canadian Blockchain Innovation To Benefit Visual Artists
Google’s “Stoush” With New Zealand: Who Will Prevail?
Education Publisher Pearson To Phase Out Print Textbooks
Guest Post By @poedavid: “Dance Like Nobody’s Paying?” Spotify Isn’t
Creative Commons Launches Its Search Engine Out Of Beta, With Over 300M Images Indexed
How To Protect Photos You Post Online
Icepops Presentations And Introducing The International Copyright Literacy Community Of Practice
Copyright news and articles, posted 8 July 2019
Implementing the Copyright Directive: Protecting the Public Domain With Article 14
State of Georgia, et. al. v. Public.Resource.Org, Inc.
Controlled Digital Lending Fact Sheet
SCOTUS Agrees To Decide Whether Annotated State Laws Can Be Copyrighted
Canada Through a Lens: The British Library Colonial Copyright Collection
“Mural, Mural on the Wall: Who’s the Owner of Them All?”
Andy Warhol’s ‘Prince Series’ Is Fair Use, Court Rules
Copyright FAQs In a School Library
Copyright news and articles, posted 24 June 2019
What Are Our Top Tips For Raising Copyright Awareness In Your Organisation?
International Copyright Law Primer
Find Public Domain And Openly Licensed Materials
UK IPO Launches New Copyright Education Resources For Schools
Intellectual Property Awareness Summit 2018 (video)
Copyright And The Currency Of Creativity: Beyond Income
A Closer Look At Specialized Intellectual Property Courts
Transcript: Africa Rising (Beyond the Book podcast)
EU Copyright Reform, the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (slides)
Is There Potential For Blockchain In Copyright And Licensing Applications?
Please take a look at my article on Copyright Literacy published on the UK Copyright Literacy site.
Copyright news and articles, posted 10 June 2019
Introducing The Kent Copyright Literacy Strategy
Houston District Hit With $9 Million Verdict Over Illicit Copying Of Company’s Materials
Supreme Court Agrees To Review Filmmaker’s Copyright Lawsuit Against North Carolina
The Life Of A New Registration Specialist
Ai Weiwei Is Suing Volkswagen For Using His Installation Of Refugee Life Jackets In An Advertisement
CARL Releases Updated Canadian Author Addendum And New Author Rights Guide
“Obituary Piracy” And What It Could Mean For Archival Institutions
CJEU Asked To Rule On German Copyright “Framing” Case
Spotlight on Copyright Review in Canada
Statutory Review of the Copyright Act
On 3 June 2019, the Report of the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology on the Statutory Review of the Copyright Act was published. You can view it here.
Canadian Heritage Report on Remuneration Models
To support the statutory review of the Copyright Act, the Committee on Industry, Science and Technology invited the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage to conduct a study on remuneration models for artists and creative industries. Its report, Shifting Paradigms, was published on 15 May 2019.
Copyright news and articles, posted 20 May 2019
The EU Copyright Reform: Battles Won, Bullets Dodged, And the Questions That Remain
Online Book Piracy: “An Offence Against Moral Justice”
Ariana Grande, Thank You, Next: Copyright Infringement On Instagram
Creative Commons Officially Launches A Search Engine That Indexes 300+ Million Public Domain Images
Public Citizen Files Test Case Over Copyright Liability For Embedded Images
Spotlight on Canada
Shifting Paradigms: The Heritage Committee Study On Copyright
Federal Court Makes Clear: Website Scraping Is Illegal
New Copyright Group Created To Streamline Collections From Businesses That Want To Play Music
Duration of Copyright in Canada
Copyright news and articles, posted 6 May 2019
General News
The EU Copyright Directive: New Exception For Text And Data Mining
Sports And Copyright — Why Sports Fans Are Cheating Themselves When They Stream Pirated Content
Photographer Claims Versace Removed CMI In Instagram Post Of Jennifer Lopez
“Fair Use Is Not Designed to Protect Lazy Appropriators” Rules Court Of Appeals
Austrian Actress And Inventor Hedy Lamarr Inducted Into The IP Hall Of Fame
Spotlight on Fair Use
Fair Use (Copyright Advisory Services, Columbia University Libraries)
Checklist for Conducting a Fair Use Analysis (Cornell University)
U.S. Copyright Office Fair Use Index
Fair’s Fair: How Fair Use and Fair Dealing Provide a Balanced Approach (Perspective of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions)
A Simple Guide to Fair Use: How to Apply Fair Use to Your Copyright Scenarios (includes a downloadable PDF)
Copyright news and articles, posted 22 April 2019
An In-Depth Guide to Copyright Literacy
Instagram and Copyright: What Are the Terms of Use?
Your Lawyer’s Role in Managing Copyright
Best Practices to Lower Copyright Risks
How to Protect Photos You Post Online
Articles with Downloadable PDFs:
- A Simple Guide to Licensing Electronic Resources: How to Address Your Licensing Issues with Confidence
- A Simple Guide to Copyright for Librarians: 15 Essential Copyright Facts & Tips
- A Simple Guide to Fair Use: How to Apply Fair Use to Your Copyright Scenarios
- Legally Using Images (Downloadable Tip Sheet for Using Google Images)
Copyright news and articles, posted 8 April 2019
EU Parliament Approves Copyright Reform and Questions And Answers On Issues About The Digital Copyright Directive
An In-Depth Guide to Copyright Literacy
Copyright, Creativity And Change
Karyn A. Temple Is Named Register Of Copyrights and Moving Forward With The Copyright Office by Karyn A. Temple
Supreme Court of Canada Hears Case On Crown Copyright In Land Registry Case
Your Lawyer’s Role in Managing Copyright
Articles with Downloadable PDFs:
- A Simple Guide to Licensing Electronic Resources: How to Address Your Licensing Issues with Confidence
- A Simple Guide to Copyright for Librarians: 15 Essential Copyright Facts & Tips
- A Simple Guide to Fair Use: How to Apply Fair Use to Your Copyright Scenarios
Copyright news and articles, posted 25 March 2019
An In-Depth Guide to Copyright Literacy: Everything You Need to Know
Willie’s Creative Commons Lesson: The Essential Attribution Requirement
How To Protect Photos You Post Online
When Does AI Infringe Copyright?
Why It’s Rarely Easy To Prove Joke Theft In The Legal World
U.S. Copyright Office Institutes New Group Registration Procedure For Unpublished Works
‘Star Trek’/Dr. Seuss Mashup Deemed Copyright Fair Use By Judge
Articles with Downloadable PDFs:
- A Simple Guide to Licensing Electronic Resources: How to Address Your Licensing Issues with Confidence
- A Simple Guide to Copyright for Librarians: 15 Essential Copyright Facts & Tips
- A Simple Guide to Fair Use: How to Apply Fair Use to Your Copyright Scenarios
Copyright news and articles, posted 11 March 2019
A Simple Guide to Copyright for Librarians: 15 Essential Copyright Facts & Tips. You can also download a PDF of the 15 essential copyright facts and tips. Also see our downloadable PDF related to our article, A Simple Guide to Fair Use: How to Apply Fair Use to Your Copyright Scenarios.
WIPO World Intellectual Property Day: How To Celebrate World IP Day
United States Copyright Office Modernization Efforts: 2018 Year In Review
Legally Using Images In Libraries
No Deal Brexit Guidance: Intellectual Property
SCOTUS Resolves Court Split In Fourth Estate, But Registration Concerns Remain; SCOTUS Clarifies Two Big Issues; Content Groups Fear Supreme Court Decision Will Make It More Difficult To Curb Piracy
Life In 1923 As Told By Books Currently In The Public Domain
The Great War Theatre Project: Crowdsourcing Copyright Clearance
Copyright news and articles, posted 25 February 2019
A Simple Guide to Copyright for Librarians: 15 Essential Copyright Facts & Tips. This is the first of the consolidations of articles on Copyrightlaws.com. Where there are several articles on the same or similar topic, we are now consolidating these separate articles into one longer comprehensive piece. For this new consolidation, you can also download a PDF of the 15 essential copyright facts and tips. Also see our second consolidation, A Simple Guide to Fair Use: How to Apply Fair Use to Your Copyright Scenarios.
Copyrighting A Dance Step? Between A Hard (Milly) Rock And A Copyright Office
Gigi Hadid Faces Another Copyright Infringement Claim After Posting Picture Of Herself On Instagram
Licensing Policy Sample: Should Your Library Have A Written Licensing Policy?
Under Criticism, National Geographic Backs Off Rights Grab
Writer’s Reputation Grows With Rediscovery Of Copyright Deposits
Facebook Found Liable For Hosting Links To Unlicensed Content
10 Myths About Canadian Copyright Law
Copyright news and articles, posted 11 February 2019
Sharing And Republishing Online Content: 6 Tips For Copyright Compliance
Social Media Photos, Once Again, Are Not Fair Game
Copyright Guidance From UK Universities (Copyright web pages from UK institutions of higher education)
Copyright Infringement: Physically Possible?
Musicians Attempt Class Actions Against UMG, Sony To Reclaim Rights To Recordings
Copyright news and articles, posted 28 January 2019
Court Rules Stealing Personal Photos From Social Media Sites Is Not Fair Use
Obtaining Copyright Permission To Use Digital And Online Content
Do I Need To Get Life Rights If I’m Making A Movie About A Dead Person? Lessons From Green Book
The United States Modernizes Its Music Licensing System
Laura Burtle Gives The Inside Scoop On E-Reserves
Netflix Becomes First Streaming Company To Join The MPAA
Authors Guild And Society Of Authors Allege Copyright Infringement By The Internet Archive
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