Five Reasons to Obtain a Federal Trademark Registration

Traverse Legal's Trademark Attorney Brian A. Hall discusses how to trademark and several benefits of obtaining federal trademark registration in his article titled "Five Common Situations Where You Would Want a Federal Trademark Registration,” wherein he discusses the following top five situations where a federal trademark registration is helpful.

How to Know Whether Content Aggregators’ Use of Third Party Content is Fair Use Under Copyright Law

We often receive questions from clients about the copyright law implications of content aggregators.  Content aggregators, to be clear, are business models in which content from the web produced by others is repackaged in a value-added manner.  Value is added to the aggregated content through the addition of user voting schemes, social networking, message boards, or other community building methods.  The question we most often receive: “Is this fair use under the Copyright Act?”

As with many legal questions, the answer is, “It depends.”  Unfortunately, the Copyright Act is purposely vague when it comes to its definition of fair use.  One thing is clear, however: fair use is not infringement.  Section 107 of the Copyright Act states: