Portal:Review Board of the United States Copyright Office, Re: Second Request for Reconsideration for Refusal to Register “Untitled” (2022)
“ Decisions to register a work have no precedential value, and are non-binding upon the Office when examining other applications, and two registration decisions from 40 years ago are not persuasive on this point. ”
Portal:Review Board of the United States Copyright Office, Re: Second Request for Reconsideration for Refusal to Register “Untitled” (2022)
“ When there is only one way, or a limited number of ways, to convey the idea that the author seeks to express, the author’s expression cannot be protected under copyright law because that would result in a monopoly over the idea itself and prevent others from using that same idea in other works. ”
Portal:Review Board of the United States Copyright Office, Re: Second Request for Reconsideration for Refusal to Register “Untitled” (2022)
“ The Office emphasized in its refusal that the Office does not have a blanket prohibition against the registration of short works, but reiterated that works which constitute the building blocks of creativity, such as common and familiar shapes, colors, words, and short phrases, do not contain enough creative authorship to support registration. ”
