copyright

January 1, 2026 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1930 are open to all, as are sound recordings from 1925! https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2026/ A couple or three that I noted because of my curious interests -- Olaf Stapledon, Last and First Men; Arthur Ransome, Swallows and...

DBC LLC, the company that owns the rights to the 2013 film, Dallas Buyers Club had been pursuing Australians who illegally downloaded or shared the film. However, they have decided to drop further legal action on this matter...

I have developed a new system similar to American Sign Language and Morse Code. Is it possible to patent, copyright, or trademark it before publishing?

Someone other than picscout appears to finally have got it to work: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/06/the-riaa-amateurs-heres-how-you-sue-p2p-users.ars Oh and aparently at least 4,577 people have downloaded a Uwe Boll film.

Hope I'm posting this in the right forum (it was this, or the 'Education' forum): Question regarding "poor man's copyright": if you don't have a lot of money to immediately file for an official copyright via the copyright office, is emailing your materials to yourself or a trusted party a...

I've been trying to upload a video to youtube many times about the Tesla VS Edison debate. Now I'm using a 50 second clip from Family Guy about Edison. First of all, I tried to upload it by itself as the flv that I downloaded online from various places. This was rejected when it was uploaded...

Found this story on CNN about the murders in Florida: Anyone come across this before about copyrighting kids' names? Is it part of this whole Freeman thing, or was he just an idiot trying to get money?

They've pretty much used my real name and more than fair use. I'm not sure what I will respond with.

I was browsing YouTube for movie trailers today and kept finding videos that had been removed due to copyright claims. (eg:http://kylemacpro.blogspot.com/ and...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7029229.stm Statutory damages. Gotta love them.

Yes, apparently Kent Hovind or someone associated with him had my YouTube vid pulled. I could've sworn Kent Hovind said repeatedly that his material was NOT copyrighted?

Hi Gang, I work at a physics department in some big company in Israel. I would like to show James Randi clips (and others if you know of such) at a meeting of the department. Many people are interested to see themselves what I have been talking with them about for the past couple of months...

Most of you probably heard about the Swedish Torrent-Site "The Pirate Bay", which is a pain in the Ass for copyright-holders all around the globe - because their Site doesn't violate Swedish Laws nor International Agreements. But even if I don't support copyright violation, I think their...

Full article: http://www.statesman.com/business/content/business/stories/other/07/09/0709geller.html So this is because Shipi Shtrang was "upset when he saw that the eight-second video". Well, glad to hear it wasn't done dishonestly to silence critics. Ben Harris confronts Geller about Shipi...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6627135.stm Interesting case since unlilke Viacom the Premier League is not a content disributer and would probably be quite happy to sell it's content to youtube for the right price (say £100 million+ for use of highlights) but for some reason it isn't...

Dear Member: This is to notify you that we have removed or disabled access to the following material as a result of a third-party notification by Pastor Benny Hinn and the World Healing Church d/b/a Benny Hinn Ministries claiming that this material is infringing: Benny Hinn - Behind the...

Split from here because Slingblade dared me :). I put this thread in Education since that's where it started (and I don't do P&CE), but if someone decides it's better placed somewhere else feel free... ------------------------ Imagine an author, let's call him Arthur, who has an idea for a...

I always thought it was a cool way to protect your intellectual property without shelling out the money required to copyright it. I read this in Guitar World a couple years ago and thought I'd share it since I was about to do this for the stuff I've been writing lately. All you do to copyright...