Copyright protection is automatic in the US and most of the civilized countries of the world. Create a work of original expression, record it, and monopoly rights vest automatically. If that were all it took, though, pushing the envelope of art, science, or culture by...
Year: 2016
Client Alert – Copyright Office DMCA Agent Update
Copyright Office Requires Update of All DMCA Agents to Maintain Protection from LiabilityIf your company owns or operates a website that allows users to post content online (text, images, video, etc.), then a recent rule change from the U.S. Copyright Office means...
The Textbook Author’s Kevin Patton Gives Glowing Review of Steve Gillen’s New Book
Steve Gillen's new book (co-authored with Mary Ellen Lepionka and Sean W. Wakely), Writing and Developing Your College Textbook: A Comprehensive Guide, will help you take your textbook project from concept to completion."This guide is an essential tool for anyone...
Writing and Developing Your College Textbook: A Comprehensive Guide
Scheduled for release in December of 2016, Steve Gillen's new book from the Textbook & Academic Authors Association (TAA) will help you take your textbook project from concept to completion. In their three section book, Writing and Developing Your College...
Greg Ahrens Is Named VP of the Cincy/NKY Federal Bar Association
Congratulations to Greg Ahrens on the occasion of his elevation to Vice President of the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky Chapter of the Federal Bar Association. Greg was sworn in by Chief Judge Susan Dlott this past Tuesday the 25th.
What You Need to Know About Copyright Mandatory Deposit
You could be in the book publishing business for a very long time and never see one. But if by chance it one day appears, it will likely have come to you in the mail from the Office of the Register of Copyrights. At the top, the paper will read "Notice for Mandatory...
Kate Smith and Dave Stallard Named to the Best Lawyers in America© 2017 by Best Lawyers®
From the Northern Kentucky Tribune - Northern Kentucky residents, David S. Stallard of Edgewood and Kathryn E. Smith of Park Hills, are two of fifteen lawyers from who were recently selected by their peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers...
Wood Herron & Evans Adds Jon Siderits as Associate Attorney
Jonathan M. Siderits has joined as an associate in the firm's Mechanical Practice Group. Jon will focus his practice on patent preparation and prosecution, patentability searches and opinions, and patent infringement litigation and...
New Law Creates Federal Enforcement of Trade Secret Rights
In this Cincinnati Business Courier Advertising Supplement, and Larry Williams explain how the Defend Trade Secrets Act provides a new federal law for the protection and enforcement of trade secret rights, and allows a private party to enforce its trade secret rights...
Meet the Consul – Clement Luken
Clement H. Luken, Jr. has been serving as Austrian Honorary Consul since July of 2014 after previously working with the Austrian Consulates General in New York and Chicago, as well as the Advantage Austria office in Chicago. He is profiled in the 'Meet the Consul' in...