Constitution Day is also the origin of US Federal copyright.

In this fourth post of the series, Dave Davis revisits the CASE Act, and, specifically, how the new Copyright Claims Board (CCB) might be of use to bloggers and podcasters in addressing circumstances where their copyrights appear to have been infringed.

In June, the UK’s Intellectual Property Office announced it will look at changes to the exhaustion of intellectual property rights. Essentially, exhaustion of IP rights is a limit on the control that copyright holders and others have over physical distribution of their works, such as books, in markets around the world.

As containing original expression in a fixed form, the content of podcasts are rather obviously subject to copyright protection by the “author” – whether that is an individual person or a corporate entity.

A blog may seem quite like a personal newsletter or maybe a newspaper at first glance, but, according to the US Copyright Office (USCO), a blog may not be registered either as a newsletter or as a newspaper.

Today, in a world of smartphones and tablets, publishing – as practiced by authors, publishers and booksellers – is all about licensing. The observation is a timely one on World Intellectual Property (IP) Day.

When last we looked at the Music Modernization Act (MMA), it had just been passed by Congress and signed into law.

The Copyright Office is currently in the midst of a project to build a new and modernized recordation process.