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How to register your images for copyright

Feb 11, 2011   //   by Texas Lawyer   //   Blog  //  No Comments

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How to register your images for copyright

Applications to register images, published or unpublished, claiming for themselves the Protections of Copyright please contact the Copyright Office (U.S. Copyright Office). The form used to record the pictures is the VA (Visual Arts).

To apply for registration of photographs, the author must submit the following in the same package or envelope, addressed to: Library of Congress Copyright Of-fice, 101 Independence Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20559-6000:

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International Protection of Copyright

Feb 11, 2011   //   by Lawyer 1   //   Blog  //  No Comments

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International Protection of Copyright

There is no "international copyright" whose record automatically protect an author's works throughout the world. The protection of this right and the measures to take when it is violated basically depend on national laws of each country. However, most countries offer protection to foreign works under certain conditions, these conditions have been provided by international conventions and treaties on copyright. There are two universal treaties on copyright, the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works and the Universal Copyright.

United States adheres to the Berne Convention on 1 March 1989, having already assigned to the UCC since September 16, 1955. Generally the works of an author who was born or domiciled in a country that is party to these treaties or agreements, and first published in a country assigned to them, or published for the first 30 days of publication of the first edition, you can claim protection for his work. There are no formal requirements in the Berne Convention. Under the UCC, any formality in the national law may be satisfied by the use of a copyright notice of copyright, in the form and position specified by this agreement.

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Is there such a term as Computer Law?

Feb 2, 2011   //   by Texas Lawyer   //   Blog  //  No Comments

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Computer law

Between Law and Information Technology you could see two types of relationships. If taken as a purely instrumental approach to the issue, you are referring to legal information. But when considering the computer as an object of law, we should make reference to the law or simply Computer Information Law.

Cybernetics plays a very important role in these relationships established in the previous paragraph. Because we know that cybernetics is the science of sciences, and arises as a need for a general science that studies and treats the relationship of the other sciences.

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Intellectual protection of web pages

Feb 2, 2011   //   by Lawyer 1   //   Blog  //  No Comments

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The legal intellectual protection of  web pages

As we know the Copyright Act protects all original literary, artistic or scientific creations expressed in any manner or medium, tangible or intangible, currently known or invented in the future.

The Web site content is also protected because they are considered as an intellectual creation. Therefore it is necessary to determine in all cases to whom rights under the Web page and is particularly recommended in the same legal notice concerning the authorship and ownership of content appearing on them, since it also is protected.

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