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Copyrights

Protect your creative expression through copyright registrations and enforce or defend your expressive rights

Copyrights protect your creative works that are fixed in a tangible medium of expression, and exist as of the moment record them. U.S. copyrights include the exclusive rights:

(1) to reproduce the copyrighted work in copies or phonorecords;

(2) to prepare derivative works based upon the copyrighted work;

(3) to distribute copies or phonorecords of the copyrighted work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending;

(4) in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and motion pictures and other audiovisual works, to perform the copyrighted work publicly;

(5) in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and pictorial, graphic, or sculptural works, including the individual images of a motion picture or other audiovisual work, to display the copyrighted work publiclyand

(6) in the case of sound recordings, to perform the copyrighted work publicly by means of a digital audio transmission.

Smith Keane can help protect your creative expressions by helping you with:

  • Copyright applications
  • Copyright prosecution
  • Copyright portfolio counseling and development
  • Copyright licensing
  • Copyright infringement opinions
  • Copyright infringement litigation (assertion and defense)
  • Copyright dispute mediation

FAQ

Common questions about Copyrights

The term “intellectual property” refers to creations of the human mind. Intellectual property can be protected by patents, trademarks, copyrights, and/or trade secrets.

A trademark is a word, logo, phrase, or other identifier that identifies your goods or services and distinguishes you from your competitors.

Utility patents protect inventions. Patents allow you the right to exclude others from making, using, selling, or importing a patented invention.

Utility patents protect inventions. Patents allow you the right to exclude others from making, using, selling, or importing a patented invention.

Utility patents protect inventions. Patents allow you the right to exclude others from making, using, selling, or importing a patented invention.

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