Ripping

December 3, 2009

CD Ripping: Is it Legal?
So, CD ripping, is it legal?
The short answer?
No, it is not.
That’s just the short answer, though. The actual law with regards to ripping the music off of a CD and storing it on your computer or burning it to another CD is confusing at best, and the subject of a fair [...]

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Publishing rights

December 2, 2009

Should I Keep my Publishing Rights?
Just to have an example to go with: Let’s say you’ve created a hilarious comic strip. It’s funny, the characters are endearing, and you’re pretty good at drawing in such a way to capture the eye and provoke, at least, a few good chuckles.
Now, should you try to go through [...]

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Publication rights

December 1, 2009

Who has the Publication Rights?
If there was ever an area of copyright law that gets murky and confusing, it’s probably in publication rights.
What publication rights literally means is that the holder of those rights is allowed to, well, publish. This holds true in music, film, literature, etcetera. With the majority of mainstream, published work, believe [...]

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Public domain

December 1, 2009

What is the Public Domain?
When people refer to the “public domain”, they are referring to an area of intellectual property, or abstract properties, that do not fall into the ownership of any individual person or company. These materials are considered public property, and are available for any individual or company to use for any purpose [...]

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Protecting your intellectual property

November 30, 2009

The Importance of Protecting your Intellectual Property
If you are authoring anything at all right now… be it a screenplay, some original music, a piece of software, or anything else that falls under abstract principles, it is your intellectual property.
To define intellectual property in basic terms: If it is not say, a design for an actual, [...]

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Poor man’s copyright

November 30, 2009

How to Obtain a Poor Man’s Copyright
In discussions regarding copyright and intellectual property, you may have heard of the so-called Poor Man’s Copyright.
The method known as the poor man’s copyright is not actually recommended by either the US or UK courts, and there is no published mention of it on the books in the US [...]

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Pirate’s bay

November 29, 2009

How the Pirate’s Bay Manages to Stay in Business
A BitTorrent is defined as a peer to peer file sharing protocol, and is used to distribute large amounts of data without actually having to store information online permanently. The initial distributor of a BitTorrent is called the first ‘seed’ on BitTorrent trackers. Every peer who begins [...]

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Photography and law

November 28, 2009

Copyright and Privacy: Photography and the Law
Believe it or not, you can actually get in some pretty deep trouble just for taking a few innocent photographs. Now, nine times out of ten, you can basically photograph anything you like and not have to worry about it, but there that one time out of ten, you [...]

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Patent lawyer

November 28, 2009

What do Patent Lawyers do?
A patent attorney, or patent lawyer, well, you can probably guess what they do, which is that they are attorneys at law with specialized qualifications regarding clients wishing to obtain or protect patents. Patent attorneys act in all matters and all procedures pertaining or directly relating to patent law and practice. [...]

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Patent law

November 27, 2009

Know the Basics of Patent Law
A patent is defined as a set of exclusive rights, as granted by the state, to an inventor or creator, or his or her “assignee”, for a pre-determined length of time, in exchange for the full disclosure of his or her invention.
Patent Law, then, is the field of law directly [...]

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