Today, we’re going to be talking about copyright ownership, and this is a more complicated area of law than you might think. Sometimes, it’s less than clear who is the owner of the copyright protected work. In order to sue for copyright infringement, one of the elements that you have to show under copyright law is that, in fact, you have the legal right, the exclusive legal right to, for instance, bring litigation for copyright infringement or to assert some other right bundled up with the copyright itself. So, you need to be able to show that you’re the author of the work or that you have been provided the exclusive right in the work that is at issue, that has been infringed by the defendant, for instance.

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