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Internet Copyright Guide

(Posted: October 30th 1996)

In NYC on Wednesday, October 30st 1996 a seminar was conducted at the New York County Lawyers Association entiled "Intellectual Property Issues of the Internet" the speakers were as follows:

Robert S. Stoll, Esq. (Partner; Stoll, Miskin, Previto & Hoffman)

Mr. Stoll spoke about WWW.NetworkSolutions.com's role in granting of domain names, and the issue of "returning" domain names to individuals and corporations which hold Federal Trademark Registrations on the name of their company and/or products. You cannot "stockpile" names and sell or hold those names hostage.

Mavis K. Fowler,Esq. (General Attorney, Toys R' Us)

Ms. Fowler mentioned that copyright infringement doesn't indemnify the host. (In other words my error may hold my service provider liable for my / your offense.)

Victoria A. Cundiff, Esq. (Partner, Paul Hastings)

Ms. Hastings covered issues of "fair use" and the Berne convention which states that in certain instances though the "C" encircled may be absent, it doesn't mean the protection is absent. The final analysis is that the Web is considered the same as print and broadcast media. To those in the graphics and creative industry this should be a welcome relief and no surprise.

Trebor Lloyd, Esq. (Associate, Amster, Rothstein & Ebenstein)

Mr Lloyd discussed Logos, Voice and Image with regards to privacy and publicity. And the fine line of liability vs. freedom of speech in the parallel of charicature and satire.

To add a Copyright symbol to a HTML document type in: "&copy" = © or "&#169".

For Registered TM: "&#174", or "&reg" = ®.

Past Publications & Seminars (list in work):

Interactivity & the Law (April 15 - 18, 1996)
.....Avoiding Legal Problems & Pitfalls: Ads and Promotion - Ms. Linda Goldstein
.....Electronic Retail Marketplace - Ms. Amy Lipton
.....Legislative & Regulatory Developments - Ms. Linda Goldstein, Ms. Eileen Harrington (FTC) , Ms. Peggy Miller
.....Todays Transactions- Mr. Douglas Wood

Law & the Internet (NY Law Journal (9/30/96)
URL: http://www.ljx.com
E-Mail: info@ljx.com

In Print ( 11/96):

Web Techniques 5/96: "Copyright: Alive & Well in the Digital Age"
.....by Catherine Kirkman (Cyberspace Attorney)

AV Video & MM Producer 10/96: "Copyrights: Who Owns Your Work?"

Internet World 1/97: "The Copyright Question"

Going to Press:

NY Law Journal: Intellectual Property (December 2, 1996)

New York Times: Global Agreement (12/22/96)

Sunday 12/22/96: Global agreement reached to widen law on Copyright. Alot of debate and opposition to a United Nations plan to try to get us ready for the digital information age. Some works will be to easily available, other works (electronic) will have protection. Applets which exsist temporarily will be protected and not considered violations if used to view text and graphics.

Reference Links for General Copyright Information

Cornell University School of Law: www.law.cornell.edu/topics/copyright.html

Library of Congress: lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/

Benedict Corporation: www.benedict.com/