By: Danielle Manahan What would you do if one of your employees stole your intellectual property and your good name and used it to sell their own products? Top beauty brand Mary Kay Inc. recently found itself in exactly this predicament after the former personal assistant to the company’s founder, […]
By Nikki R. Breeland, Esq. Recently, Instagram was hit with a major class action lawsuit for copyright infringement for its “Embedding Tool” feature.[1] According to the complaint by photojournalists Alexis Hunley and Matthew Scott Brauer, Instagram created the Embedding Tool to display copyrighted works of Instagram users on third-party publisher […]
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5 Reasons Why You Should Copyright Your Software NOW. By Mitchell C. Shelowitz[1] Look at the Leaders. If global technology leaders such as Oracle, Apple, Cellebrite, Orcam, and Sarine register their valuable software for protection with the U.S. Copyright Office, why don’t you? What are you waiting for?[2] Copyrights, Not […]
Software A. Source code. B. Compiled code. C. Screen Displays (e.g., User Interface [UI] (including look and feel)). Protection Against Literal and Non-Literal Copying A. Protection from identical copying. B. Protection from copying that is substantially similar or strikingly similar to original. C. Protection from non-literal copying, including the […]