Intellectual Property Law
Is the Copyright Office really not part of the Executive Branch? That question—now before the Supreme Court in Trump v. Perlmutter—has serious constitutional implications. The Office issues regulations, adjudicates rights, enforces the law, and engages internationally. Calling that “non-executive” isn’t just counterintuitive—it raises far bigger separation-of-powers concerns.
AI tools can help you create stunning visuals—but can you copyright them? The answer isn’t as simple as “yes” or “no.”
The Supreme Court said you need a copyright registration to file that copyright lawsuit
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 this process. When someone …
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 Woods on a Snowy …
