Subprime Mortgage Loan Fraud - How E-Discovery Can Uncover The Truth

Subprime mortgage lenders who have committed fraud, or acted as a predatory lender, to home owners should know that much like Enron, they will have their day in court.

Laws for Blogs

A Blog is short for Web Log and has become a new and exciting form of communication. It is like a diary or a journal personal or corporate that is posted on the Internet for public viewing and updated from time to time. It enables people to publish comments, ideas and opinions for others to read. Besides being a personal from of expression, corporate blogs offer a platform for marketing new ideas, communication channels between management and employees, discussion of industry and media trends, news coverage and even political expressions. We also have law blogs, school blogs and marketing blogs.

Avoiding Liability for Your Web Sites

Allowing visitors to post messages in one's Web site has become increasingly popular. However, recent cases have shown that doing so may subject the Web-site owner to liability for contributory copyright infringement or defamation.

Not Every Written Word Can Be Copyrighted

A coommonly held misconception about the copyright protection is that your ideas as well as your words are covered. To understand exactly what is -- and what is NOT -- portected when you apply the copyright symbol to your work.

Copyrights Owners - The Right to Reproduce

As a copyright holder, you have the sole rights to determine whether and how that image is reproduced. But if you aren't careful, you can lose that right.

Copyright Owners - How to Protect Your Work

While you may own a copyright, you must protect it to keep its value. Here's what you can do.

Copyright Transfer or License - How You Can Share Your Copyright and Still Keep It

You can transfer the copyright to an image, either by selling it or giving it away. If so, you give up all rights that you had in the image as if you never took the photograph. But the only way to give up a copyright to an image is in writing. Even when copies of a photo are distributed, the photographer retains the copyrights to the image. If you give your client copies of the digital files, without more, you are not giving up your copyrights.

Honoring the Copyrights of Composers, Too

Many photographers use music to enhance their photography. But since music is a work protected by copyright law, make sure that you honor the copyright of the composer, too.

Copyright Notice - Not Required But Helpful

You’ll often see a copyright “notice” – the familiar © or the word “copyright” with a date and name of the copyright owner - posted on works of authorship. This copyright notice is no longer required for copyright protection, but it may be a good idea to use it.

Copyright Basics for Songwriters

Should you copyright your song? If you're a songwriter, sooner or later you will probably have some questions about getting your material copyrighted. Since I've already been down this road before, you might be able to benefit from my experience.

Music Copyright

Copyright is a form of protection provided by the laws of your country to the authors of “original works of authorship,” including literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, and certain other intellectual works. This protection is available to both published and unpublished works.

How to Copyright a Screenplay (Part 2)

Learn about the best ways to protect your original works against theft. Don't be a victim of the predators that are out there looking to steal your content.

The Proper Way To Copyright Visual Arts

Don't lose potential income from your original artistic work. Find out how to copyright your work before it is too late.