Copyright Law
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Global Entrepreneurship Week – KC
by Hovey Williams November 2, 2022ATTENTION PIONEERS and INVENTORS!! DON’T MISS OUT ON FREE INFORMATIVE SESSIONS FOR ENTREPRENEURS. Global Entrepreneurship Week – KC happens November 14-20, 2022. Learn how to to protect and commercialize your inventions with patents, trade secrets, copyrights and trademarks. Our partner, Tom Luebbering will host a free informative session on Thursday November 17, 2022 from 2:45pm
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Hovey Williams 2023 Recognition in “The Best Lawyers in America”®
by Hovey Williams August 22, 2022Congratulations to our honorees. A well deserved honor.
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Copyright Claims Board Begins Accepting Claims
by Hovey Williams June 14, 2022On June 2, 2022, the U.S. Copyright Office announced that the Copyright Claims Board (CCB) will begin accepting claims on Thursday, June 16, 2022. The CCB was established by the Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement (CASE) Act of 2020. The CCB consists of a three-member tribunal that provides a voluntary alternative to federal district court
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Hovey Prevails in Copyright Infringement Case at the 8th Circuit
by Hovey Williams August 20, 2021Hovey Williams LLP successfully defended its client Thomson Sailors Homes and its principals in a copyright infringement action in the Western District of Missouri. In 2019, Judge Steven R. Bough granted summary judgment of no copyright infringement in a case claiming that certain model homes built in the Kansas City area by Thomson Sailors and
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Copyright Slam Dunk?
by Hovey Williams April 2, 2020By Kyle Mendenhall Lebron James is being sued for copyright infringement after posting a cropped photograph of himself on … copyright law
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Busting some patent myths
by Hovey Williams July 11, 2019Anyone who has needed to copyright something has likely considered the option of the so-called “poor …
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A refresher on fair use
by Hovey Williams June 12, 2019Fair use is often cited, but many may not have a clear idea of what it is. In short, fair use is a pragmatic doctrine that … copyright law
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Photographers win two recent copyright appeals
by Hovey Williams June 7, 2019Photographers face many challenges in the digital era, none more significant than having their works copied and repurposed … copyright law
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The ins and outs of songwriter credits
by Hovey Williams May 20, 2019The concept of songwriting has evolved. From communal folk songs that evolved over millennia in the public domain to the … copyright law
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