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Two of the least understood and usually badly confused areas of copyright law are the issue of whether or not a work has been published and the subsequent fair use doctrine. Publication and fair use are called "doctrines" because the bulk of the law...

Title 17 of the U.S. Code lays out current federal law on copyright. It includes provisions of: – Copyright Act of 1976 (Appendix A) – Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (Appendix B) – Copyright Royalty and Distribution Reform Act of 2004 (Appendix...

Disclaimer: the information here is educational. It does not create an attorney client privilege between the author/presenters or the reader. The focus of our meetup today was Intellectual Property law. Notes taken from slides and presentation prepared...

One of the most confusing areas of the internet is how it is affected by copyright law. Does copyright law apply to works that are published online? Yes. Will using a copyrighted work that you found online infringe on the copyright? Most likely....

The Permissions Controller for the digitisation of the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments of England, Rachael Lazenby, has written an introductory guide to copyright for images, drawing on her experience on this project and on other work that...