Say goodbye to copyright infringement

According to the US Copyright Office, copyright infringement occurs when a copyrighted work is reproduced, distributed, performed, publicly displayed, or made into a derivative work without the permission of the copyright owner.

Copyrights protect the original works of a creator such as written texts, music, images, videos, software codes, and others. If you are a creator, your work is automatically protected by copyright law when you publish it in any form of tangible medium. This protection grants you the exclusive rights to publish, sell, modify and reproduce your unique work.

Red Points’ copyright protection software helps you to shield your creative works from infringers that try to profit from your innovations. The software covers a broad range of mediums including movies, digital works like software and videogames, prints, streaming, and educational products. Copyright violations are detected and enforced rapidly with bot-powered search and a self-improving system through machine learning. The system takes down and reports abuses automatically and around the clock.

You can detect copyright infringements manually or hire an attorney for legal advice. However, those single-case approaches have disadvantages when dealing with multiple or repeated infringements. Instead, you can work with a pure-play brand protection company like Red Points that safeguards your intellectual property at scale.

Although all pertain to intellectual property protection, a copyright, a patent, and a trademark protect different types of intellectual property. In sum:

• A copyright protects the rights of authors over their original literary, artistic, or scientific works, as earlier mentioned.
• A patent protects inventions, processes, or products that offer a technical solution to a particular problem.

A trademark protects a brand’s name, logo, symbol, or design that distinguishes it from other brands or businesses.

A copyright owner has the exclusive right to:

• Reproduce the copyrighted work.
• Distribute copies of the copyrighted work, either by sale, lease, or lending.
• Display the copyrighted work, if it is a literary, musical, or artistic creation.
• Perform the copyrighted work, if it is a literary, musical, or audiovisual creation.
• Prepare a derivative work–that is, a work that is based upon pre-existing copyrighted materials.
• File an infringement action against unauthorized users, producers, and/or distributors (i.e. pirates) of the copyrighted work.

Generally, the duration of a copyright is the life of the author plus 70 years after his death. If the copyrighted material is created by more than one author, the copyright lasts for 70 years after the last surviving author’s death. For works with anonymous or pseudonymous authors, the duration of the copyright is 95 years from the material’s publication or 120 years from its creation, whichever is shorter.