Judge Patel's interpretation of copyright protection under existing law seems reasonable, but she acknowledged in her oral ruling that it was hard to make a "neat fit" in applying copyright law to cases involving new technology.
It was struggling to apply a copyright law which has grown worse than anachronistic in the digital age.
The music industry, he says, has a strategy of going after individuals while not addressing changing technologies as they apply to copyright law.
If you apply for copyright registration via mail, you must fill out the printed application and provide hard copies of the work you wish to register.
(That's ignoring that the Digital Millenium Copyright Act only applies to copyright infringement. Hence, uh, the name).
However the executive body appears to be seeking to bundle up various types of "illegal" content into the same problem bucket — and quickly drew criticism it risks encouraging algorithmic censorship by seeking to create one set of rules to apply to copyrighted content and terrorist propaganda, for example.
The next month Mr. Heriot applied for copyright to "The Secret," claiming authorship of the movie and the screenplay.
John Rando, the director of the Broadway production, applied for copyright protection for his work but was turned down, and the Department of Justice intervened in the case, saying that the federal copyright office had acted properly in rejecting Mr. Rando's plea.
That a Chinese court was willing to enforce an industrial design (or applied art) copyright is significant, say lawyers with experience in Chinese intellectual property matters.
