By Tom Zuber and Jeff Zuber of Zuber Lawler & Del Duca
The Second Circuit recently issued an opinion involving a wide scope of copyright fair use issues. In Cariou v. Prince, 11-1197-cv (2d Cir. April 25, 2013), the Court held in favor of defendant Prince, who appropriated dozens of Cariou’s photos in thirty collages. The Court found that when the original… More...
The United States Copyright Office is requesting public comment for the third time on the topic of adjudicating small copyright claims. More...
The Copyright Royalty Judges has announced receipt of a notice of intent to audit the 2009, 2010, and 2011 statements of account submitted by Last.fm, Ltd. More...
The Copyright Office is reviewing the problem of orphan works under U.S. copyright law in continuation of its previous work on the subject and to advise Congress on possible next steps for the United States. More...
The Copyright Office has published a Federal Register notice requesting written comments on how current copyright law affects and supports visual artists and how a federal resale royalty right for visual artists would affect current and future practices of groups or individuals involved in the creation, licensing, sale, exhibition, dissemination, and preservation of works of visual art. More...
The Copyright Royalty Judges have announced receipt of two notices to audit the 2009, 2010, and 2011 statements of account submitted by DKCM, Inc., a commercial webcaster, and Greater Media, Inc., a broadcaster. More...
The Copyright Royalty Judges (“CRJs” or “Judges”) are soliciting comments on a motion for partial distribution of 2011 royalties from the Digital Audio Recording Technology (DART) Sound Recordings Fund. More...
The Copyright Royalty Judges are commencing a proceeding to determine the distribution of 2005–08 royalties remaining in the Digital Audio Recording Technology Musical Works Fund. More...
The Copyright Office is conducting this rulemaking proceeding mandated by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which provides that the Librarian of Congress may designate certain classes of works as exempt from the prohibition against circumvention of technological measures that control access to copyrighted works when such circumvention is done to engage in noninfringing uses of works in the designated classes. More...
The Copyright Office periodically seeks to update its list of specialty stations related to the use of the cable compulsory license. Specialty station status is determined by reference to the former regulations of the Federal Communications Commission in effect on June 24, 1981, which defined a specialty station as "a commercial television broadcast station that generally carries foreign-language, religious, and/or automated programming in one-third of the hours of an average broadcast week and one-third of the weekly prime-time hours." More...
The U.S. Copyright Office has issued its report on Federal Copyright Protection for Pre-1972 Sound Recordings, as required under the Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2009. More...
LawLoop Demo
Welcome to the Future