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About Joshua Graubart
Joshua Graubart is an Intellectual Property Attorney; owner of the Law Offices of Joshua Graubart, P.C. in New York, New York.
EMAIL: jggraubart@graubartlaw.com
PHONE: 646-781-9321 Copyright and Trademark: Titles, Words & Short Phrases
Authored by Joshua Graubart, re: Intellectual Property, LAW RELATED ARTICLES, on April 17, 2017.	{4:12 minutes to read} It is a truism among intellectual property lawyers that no matter how often one may encounter discussion of a “copyrighted word” or a “copyrighted phrase”—and this notion appears frequently in media—copyright law generally does not protect titles, words, slogans or phrases.[1]
Click to read Joshua Graubart's full article...	The Blurry Boundaries of Copyright
Authored by Joshua Graubart, re: Intellectual Property, LAW RELATED ARTICLES, on January 25, 2017.	{3:54 minutes to read} My practice—and accordingly this blog—focuses on copyright, or at least on what we call “copyright” in the United States. However, “copyright” is only one segment of a broader spectrum called “intellectual property,” and—as is often the case with segments of a spectrum—the boundaries are somewhat arbitrary, and the subject matter can bleed across from one segment into the next. Just so with intellectual property.
Click here to read Joshua Graubart's full article...	What is Intellectual Property?
Authored by Joshua Graubart, re: Intellectual Property, LAW RELATED ARTICLES, on December 14, 2016.	{3:54 minutes to read} “Intellectual property” consists—as the name suggests—of “creations of the mind,” and more specifically, of commercially valuable aspects of those creations.
Click here to read Joshua Graubart's full article...	Copyright Small Claims Court: The Devil is in Small Details
Authored by Joshua Graubart, re: Business Law, LAW RELATED ARTICLES, on October 5, 2016.	{5:24 minutes to read} In a prior post, I mentioned that in September 2013, the U.S. Copyright Office had proposed a copyright small claims court as an alternative to full-blown civil litigation. Almost three years later, the Copyright Office’s proposal has moved onto the legislative agenda as a bill (H.R. 5757) in the House of Representatives sponsored by Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY).
Click here to read Joshua Graubart's full article....	Termination Rights, Part 3: The British Commonwealth
Authored by Joshua Graubart, re: Business Law, LAW RELATED ARTICLES, on August 30, 2016.	{4:18 minutes to read} In a prior post, Termination of Transfer – Part 1, I talked about Congress’s implementation of a two-term copyright structure, of 28 years each, in the US Copyright Act of 1909 (the act which governs copyright in works dated before 1978). The stated purpose was to permit authors a “second bite at the apple,” whereby they could profit anew from the exploitation of their works once the first term expired. As noted in that post, the structure failed to achieve its purpose.
Click here to read Joshua Graubart's full article...	Termination of Transfer Part 2 Cont’d: Clearing the Flaming Hoops
Authored by Joshua Graubart, re: Intellectual Property, on June 30, 2016.	{4:48 minutes to read} As discussed in the last post, terminating a transfer of copyright is far more technically complicated than one might expect. This blog continues that discussion by outlining who can terminate and when.
Click here to read Joshua Graubart's full article...	Termination of Transfer Part 2: Clearing the Flaming Hoops
Authored by Joshua Graubart, re: Intellectual Property, on May 11, 2016.	{3:30 minutes to read} Terminating a transfer of copyright is far more technically complicated than one might expect.
Click here to read Joshua Graubart's full article...	Termination of Transfer – Part 1
Authored by Joshua Graubart, re: Intellectual Property, on February 16, 2016.	{5:24 minutes to read} It takes money to make money. For most of modern history, artists seeking mass-market success have had to partner with “production companies”—record labels, publishers, and film studios—in order to get their work in front of the public.
Though technology has in recent years reduced the burden of that requirement a bit, that very easing has also unleashed a flood of creative work in the market (much of it of indifferent quality) and mainstream success still—perhaps now more than ever—requires funds and expertise in production and promotion. It is instructive, for example, to note that in the past 20 years, only one record—Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’s 2013 Thrift Shop—has topped the Billboard Hot 100 without the backing of a major record label.
Click here to read Joshua Graubart's full article...	Copyright Class Actions Part 3 – The Class Representative
Authored by Joshua Graubart, re: Miscellaneous, on December 17, 2015.	{4:42 minutes to read} In my last post, I discussed the first set of criteria which a court must consider in certifying a potential class action: is a class the most efficient way to serve justice?
Click here to read Joshua Graubart's full article....	Copyright Class Actions Part 2
Authored by Joshua Graubart, re: Intellectual Property, on November 24, 2015.	{5:06 minutes to read} As discussed in myprior post, litigating a low-value copyright infringement claim is often simply not worth the time and expense required. However, such a claim can sometimes be made cost-effective by aggregating it with similar claims in a class action. A single copyright holder with a small claim can serve as a representative of a “class” of similarly affected rightsholders.
Click here to read Joshua Graubart's full article...	The Copyright Infringement Class Action: Cost-Effective Recovery for Low-Value Cases
Authored by Joshua Graubart, re: Intellectual Property, on October 14, 2015.	{3:54 minutes to read} No matter the value of an infringement claim, there is no way to enforce a copyright claim except – literally – to make a federal case of it. The federal courts have exclusive jurisdiction over copyright disputes,[1] so copyright infringement actions must be brought in the federal courts.
Authored by Joshua Graubart, re: Intellectual Property, on August 5, 2015.	{4:12 minutes to read} “How much is my claim worth?” This vexing question returns every time I consider a client’s copyright infringement claim. Attempting to predict a court verdict is a fool’s game, but there are some basic markers to guide us in valuing a claim.
Click here to read Joshua Graubart's full article...	Public Performance, Communication & Display: What Is “Public”?
Authored by Joshua Graubart, re: Business Law, LAW RELATED ARTICLES, on May 12, 2015.	{3:06 minutes to read} As discussed in earlier posts, among the exclusive rights accorded to copyright holders is the right to perform or display their works publicly, or to authorize others to do so. Consequently, copyright law generally limits the exclusive rights of the copyright holder, and thus permits certain private uses of a protected work without the rightsholder’s permission, whereas public exploitation requires permission and/or payment. It follows that the definition of “public” is of great importance and varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction.
Click here to read Joshua Graubart's full article...	Public Performance of Music: Dramatic, or Non-Dramatic?
Authored by Joshua Graubart, re: Business Law, LAW RELATED ARTICLES, on March 30, 2015.	“On entering an opera or concert hall in Paris you come face to face with a long counter, presided over by three gentlemanly-looking individuals in evening dress, to whom your ticket is given, they replacing it with another, by which you are seated.”
{4:06 minutes to read} Two of these Parisian gentlemen were representatives of two different French performing rights societies (PROs). (The third, incidentally, was a representative of the Parisian public hospital system, which was then supported by a performance tax.)
Click here to read Joshua Graubart's full article...	The Right of Public Performance
Authored by Joshua Graubart, re: Business Law, LAW RELATED ARTICLES, on February 17, 2015.	Among the exclusive rights accorded to copyright holders is the right to perform their works publicly, or to permit others to do so.
Generally, a public performance includes not only a “live” performance, such as a concert or play, but also the public exhibition or playback of a recording (such as a film or sound recording), and the public transmission or broadcast of live or recorded performances (such as by radio and television).
Click here to read Joshua Graubart's full article...	Copyright Registration – Fact and Myth
Authored by Joshua Graubart, re: Intellectual Property, LAW RELATED ARTICLES, on December 30, 2014.	Generally speaking, works published in the US before January 1st, 1978, were only protected by copyright if they were registered at or before publication. Under the current Act, all works are subject to copyright protection from the moment of their creation, regardless of registration.
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