Posts Tagged ‘registration’

Safe Creative: A Good Start to Protecting Works

By Jonathan Bailey • Feb 11th, 2009 • Category: Articles, Products

A new non-repudiation service, Safe Creative, hopes to change the way you protect and verify your works and has a free service and slew of new features to make the case.



Why Your Copyright Protection is Second Rate

By Jonathan Bailey • Jan 11th, 2008 • Category: Articles, Punditry

If you’ve ever wondered why big copyright holders collect millions and damages while you struggle to deal with even the most basic of content theft, this is why.



How the Copyright Office Hurts Bloggers

By Jonathan Bailey • Jul 31st, 2007 • Category: Articles, DMCA, Legal Issues, Punditry

The same copyright system that allows the RIAA to go on a rampage of lawsuits and empowers movie studios to cripple fair use of their work is tying the hands of small copyright holders on the Web.
Worst hit of all are the bloggers, who often endure the worst kinds of infringement only to discover [...]



Registering Blogs and Sites with the Copyright Office

By Jonathan Bailey • Jun 7th, 2007 • Category: Articles, Legal Issues, Prevention, Products

Though registering a work with the United States Copyright Office (USCO) is not necessary to obtain copyright protection, it is necessary in order to sue for the infringement in Federal court.
That, in turn, opens up the possibility for statutory damages as well as the return of any legal fees. Without these damages and fees, suing [...]