Copyrights

The Supreme Court said you need a copyright registration to file that copyright lawsuit

By Matthew J. Booth Yet again, we have the dreaded, “it depends,” answer.  In this case, it depends on where you can bring the lawsuit because there have been different decisions in various Federal Circuit Courts of Appeal about the proper timing of filing a copyright infringement lawsuit. Let’s go back to the beginning of …

By Matthew J. Booth That’s a little bit what starting this adventure in blogging feels like. It is also the ending to Robert Frost’s poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.” On January 1, 2019, most copyrighted works published in 1923 went into the public domain. This includes several notable works including “Stopping by …