A District Court has ruled foreign copyright holders must register with the U.S. Copyright Office for full rights in the country.

The Copyright Office recently raised its estimate time for getting a certificate to nine months, here’s 25 things you can do to kill that time.

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1: Copyright Office slams Google Book deal, Google opens up
First off today, the Google Book Search Settlement has a new, very powerful enemy, the U.S. Copyright Office. Maybeth Peters, the Register of Copyrights, has explained her objections to the settlement to Congress.
Peters calls [...]

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1: Oprah can relax, $1 trillion lawsuit is dismissed
First off today, we have a post from the “That didn’t take long” department. Oprah’s famed $1 Trillion lawsuit, which made the “Weird Story of the Week” in the latest edition of the Copyright 2.0 [...]

The USCO surprises no one by raising the fees on certain copyright registrations. But is it enough to change behavior?

The new Electronic Copyright Office system was supposed to speed up copyright registrations. Instead, it has tripled the wait and put the whole system in jeopardy.

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1: Right-to-Repair Law Proposed … for Cars
First off today, the [...]

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1: No harm, no foul?
The new Wolverine movie was released [...]

A recent re-post by Dan Heller has raised the question of whether the USCO should let private companies accept copyright registrations.

Non-repudiation services are becoming all the rage with new startups appearing almost weekly. The question is if they are worthwhile and, if so, what role do they play?