Copyright protection measures under Vietnam law- Comparison with CPTPP agreement

Robbery under arms: Copyright law and the Australia - United States Free Trade Agreement

Digital Music Copyright Protection Dilemma: a Discussion on Draft Amendments of China's Copyright Law

On March 31,2012, China’s National Copyright Administration of the People’s Republic of China (NCAC) published the Draft Amendment to the Copyright Law at its website to seek public feedback. Some articles in the current Draft Amendments, such as Articles 46 and 48, have attracted the most attention from the public, especially the music industry, because they involve unauthorized use of copyrig...

The Originality Standard for Literary Works under U.S. Copyright Law

Challenging search engines under copyright law: Part 1

I decided to be ambitious and call this column “Part 1.” The US Court of Appeals on the West Coast (CA 9) recently handed down an opinion (in Kelly v. Arriba Soft) broadly condemning as illegal what it termed “framing” and apparently condemning all hyperlinking as well. It turns out, though, that what the CA 9 called framing is actually just putting an image from someone’s Web page into a new b...

Originality Requirements under U.S. and E.U. Copyright Law

Understanding how copyright law applies to software is essential to making informed decisions about how to develop and distribute code. The first step of this analysis is to consider whether the code in question is in fact copyrightable. This document discusses the requirements for software to be considered within the scope of copyright under U.S. law. Because open source and free software deve...