During a wild time for copyright law, the US Copyright Office has no one at the helm—and no one knows when that will change.

Applying and paying is not enough to clear the way for an infringement suit, the U.S. Supreme Court justices ruled in a blow to owners. The copyright register must also sign off, which can take weeks.

As a general rule, a copyright lasts for the life of the creator PLUS another 70 years. So your grandchildren and great-grandchildren can benefit from your creation well after you have left this ...

Wall-Street.com, the court had to determine at what point "registration of the copyright claim has been made." Fourth Estate Public Benefit Corp. said registration is made at the time when an ...

Fourth Estate v. Wall-Street.com is one of two copyright cases on the Supreme Court’s January argument calendar. (The other case, Rimini Street v.Oracle, will be argued on January 14.)Both cases pose ...

The Supreme Court of the United States unanimously decided an important copyright law issue previously dividing U.S. Circuit Courts for many years. In Fourth Estate Public Benefit Corp. v. Wall ...

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It looks as if copyright trolls don't worry the Supreme Court as much as patent trolls. The high court sounded disinclined Monday to throw out an $846,000 judgment won by a fashion design ...

For example, Stephen Thaler used an AI system to create a visual image, “A Recent Entrance to Paradise.” His copyright registration listed the AI as the author, ...