By Jan Jensen and Ryan Smith of Zuber & Taillieu LLP
The Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held that a webcasting service that provides users with customized internet radio stations is not an “interactive service” under 17 U.S.C. section 114(j)(7), and therefore need not pay individual licensing fees to sound recording copyright holders. In Arista Records, LLC et al v.… More...
The Copyright Royalty Judges (“Judges”) have published final regulations governing the statutory minimum fees to be paid by commercial webcasters under sections 112(e) and 114 of the Copyright Act. More...
The Copyright Office (Office”) has adopted an interim regulation governing mandatory deposit of electronic works published in the United States and available only online. More...
The Librarian of Congress has extended, on an interim basis, the existing classes of works with respect to which the prohibition against circumvention of technological measures that effectively control access to copyrighted works shall not apply to persons who engage in non-infringing uses. More...
The Copyright Office is adopting amendments to its regulations governing the recordation of notices of termination and certain related provisions that would: 1) communicate the Office’s practices as to its receipt of notices of termination that are untimely; 2) clarify that recordation of a notice of termination by the Office does not necessarily mean that the document is legally sufficient; 3) update the legibility requirements for all recorded documents, including notices of termination; 4) make minor explanatory edits to the fee schedule for multiple titles within a document (adding, “e.g., a Notice of Termination” as an example); and 5) establish a new mailing address to which notices of termination should be sent. More...
About a month before he left the White House, then U.S. President George W. Bush signed into law the Webcaster Settlement Act of 2008 (“WSA”). More...
On October 13, 2008, U.S. President George W. Bush signed into law the Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act (Pub. L. 110-403) (the "PRO-IP Act"). More...
On May 20, 2008, the Copyright Office released an issuance, effective immediately, to clarify when interest for late and underpayments is due in light of the Copyright Office’s electronic funds transfer requirement. By way of background, on August 10, 2006, the Copyright Office published a rule More...
The Copyright Royalty Judges issued on November 30, 2007 final regulations setting the royalty rates and terms under the Copyright Act for the non-commercial educational broadcasting statutory license period 2008-2012. The targeted date of effectivity of these regulations is January 1, 2008. More...
An interim regulation was published by the Copyright Office in the Federal Register on July 6, 2007. This regulation provided for implementing an online registration system, and revised the Office’s regulations covering the procedures for the submission and processing of copyright registrations More...
