Intellectual Property and Assessing its Financial Value

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Intellectual Property and Assessing Its Financial Value

One of the informational requirements in registering copyright in a

work is to identify pre-existing copyrighted material that is present in the

copyright application. This is important for registration purposes because

copyright in a derivative work is limited to the newly added material;

the pre-existing material is protected by its own prior copyright. To the

extent that a work “unlawfully” uses pre-existing material, the law may

invalidate copyright protection.

Registration

Although copyright comes about spontaneously when something

original is created and is covered by relevant legislation, ...