Copyright — guides, checklists and articles
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- Architectural IP Checklist: Registration Scope, Drawing Deposits, Ownership Terms, Photography Rights, and Infringement Comparison · Checklist — This checklist runs an architectural practice's intellectual property against the dates that actually decide outcomes. It opens with the two registrations most…
- Making Works Reachable: Accessibility Exceptions, Assistive Technology, and the Formats Nobody Licenses · Article — Accessibility is the strongest position in copyright and almost nobody treats it that way, which is why organisations buy converted files they are entitled to…
- Architecture and Construction IP Toolkit: Buildings, Drawings, Contracts, and Images · Toolkit — Architectural intellectual property runs on two overlapping copyright regimes plus a set of contract and professional conventions that decide most disputes…
- Generative AI IP Compliance Checklist: Policy, Provenance, Disclosure, and Contracts · Checklist — This checklist takes a company from "our designers started using Midjourney last spring" to a defensible IP file, in eleven phases a competent practitioner can…
- Fonts, Stock Assets, and Design Libraries Toolkit: Licences, Embedding, Audits, and Clearance · Toolkit — Typefaces are not protected by copyright in the United States and font software is, which is the single fact that explains almost everything about how this…
- Saying It in Another Language: Translation, Dubbing, and the Derivative Work Nobody Cleared · Article — A translation is a new copyrighted work made out of somebody else's copyrighted work, which means every localisation project is a derivative work project…
- Furniture, Homewares, and Interior Design IP Toolkit: Separability, Filings, and Reproduction · Toolkit — Furniture is the hardest category in copyright because a chair is a useful article and the law protects only what can be perceived separately from its…
- Esports, Streaming, and Competitive Gaming IP Toolkit: Licences, Broadcasts, Players, and Sponsors · Toolkit — Competitive gaming is the only major spectator sport whose playing field is a copyrighted work owned by a private company that can withdraw permission.…
- Protecting a Fashion or Apparel Line: A Practitioner's Guide to Separability, Design Patents, Trade Dress, and Fast-Fashion Enforcement · Guide — This guide builds intellectual property protection around a fashion line as an operating process rather than a doctrinal survey. It starts with the triage that…
- Running a Fair Use Analysis: A Practitioner's Guide for Content, Software, and AI Training · Guide — This guide is the working procedure for clearing a use under Section 107 before anyone gets sued, and for defending it afterward. It walks through thirteen…
- Podcast and Audio Production Checklist: Show Name Clearance, Music and Sound Licensing, Guest Releases, Clip and Fair Use Review, and Distribution Terms · Checklist — This checklist runs an audio series from the naming decision to the archive, in the order the decisions arise and with gates at the points where a show should…
- Bringing, Defending, or Opting Out of a Copyright Claims Board Proceeding: A Practitioner's Guide · Guide — This guide is the operational half of the Marksy article on the Copyright Claims Board, and it assumes you know the thirty-thousand-dollar cap and the…
- DMCA Takedown Notice Checklist: Statutory Elements, Counter-Notice, and Repeat-Infringer Policies · Checklist — An eleven-phase working checklist for the notice-and-takedown machinery of 17 U.S.C. 512, written to be run top to bottom by a practitioner with a real matter…
- Furniture and Homewares IP Checklist: Separability Analysis, Design Filing Sequence, Trade Dress Evidence, Licensing and Reissue Terms, and Copy Response · Checklist — This checklist audits the intellectual property position of a furniture or homewares business in the order the questions arise. It starts with the separability…
- Pleading Around Preemption: A Practitioner's Guide to the Extra Element, Contract Claims, and Removal Strategy · Guide — This guide drafts a complaint that survives a preemption motion and attacks one that does not, working the two-prong analysis count by count before anything is…
- Licensing and Clearing Visual Content: A Practitioner's Guide to Stock, Commissions, Releases, and Usage Terms · Guide — An operational guide to visual content on both sides of the transaction, built around the documents that actually govern rather than the categories marketing…
- Public Domain Clearance Checklist: Publication Date, Formalities, Renewal, Restoration, Derivative Layers, and Documentation · Checklist — This checklist clears a work for use and produces a memorandum rather than an answer, in the order the research has to happen. It starts by identifying the…
- Esports and Streaming Checklist: Publisher Licence Terms, Event and Broadcast Rights, Player and Team Agreements, Sponsorship and Ambush Controls, and Platform Compliance · Checklist — This checklist audits an esports organiser, team, or streaming business. It begins with the publisher licence, because everything else sits on top of it and…
- Two Copyrights, One Song: Music Licensing, Sampling, and the Clearance Maze · Article — Every recorded song carries two independent copyrights — one in the musical work under 17 U.S.C. § 102(a)(2) and one in the sound recording under § 102(a)(7) —…
- Copyright Duration and Public Domain Toolkit · Toolkit — Whether a work is in the public domain is arithmetic for works created after 1977 and archival research for everything earlier, and the difference between…
- Protecting an Architectural Practice: A Practitioner's Guide to Ownership, Drawings, Construction Contracts, and Enforcement · Guide — This guide runs an architectural practice's intellectual property as an operating programme rather than a doctrinal survey. It starts with the two…
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