Copyrights

  • Copyright Registration

    Registration of your work is primary evidence that you are the creator and owner of your own production. Not only is registration useful to define and determine ownership, it is also necessary to enforce your copyrights in federal court.

  • Copyright Licensing

    Whether it be your employee, partner, or consultant working with you to create new things, it is important that the ownership be clearly defined. Once issue most common to new clients is failure to obtain an assignment in writing. Even if you hire someone to create a derivative work at your direction, failure to obtain their assignment of rights in writing will result in the author retaining rights in the work you commissioned.

  • Copyright Litigation

    Copyrights are exclusively enforced in federal courts. Rights include the ability to stop others from copying all the way to reimbursement of your attorneys’ fees and statutory monetary damages (in some cases). At Bycer & Marion we have extensive experience in the District of Arizona and other federal courts in the defense, and enforcement of copyrights and employments agreements involving IP.

Ensure credit is placed where credit is due.

Either you are an author, or your employees have created some new form of expression or work on your behalf. You worked hard to develop your work of art or particular expression of what you do.

Why let others free ride and copy your work?

Or, you have hired another to prepare a work or software project for you.
How can you ensure that you can freely use the work and own it yourself?

Securing Copyrights in creative works is vital to protect authors’ intellectual property rights. Copyright registration grants authors a presumption of validity and ownership in their works, making your rights stronger against unlawful users. Securing all the protections Copyright provides can be difficult as failure to take the proper steps can easily result in a loss of your intellectual property rights. Bycer & Marion are highly skilled, helping individuals acquire, register, license, transfer, and defend Copyrights, nationally and internationally.

Bycer & Marion has assisted clients in securing defending and enforcing their rights online, and in federal court for works ranging from movies, to recordings to books and manuals. If you are a creator or author, it is essential that you take the proper steps to ensure your ownership of your work.

Contact us.

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Phoenix, AZ 85020

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