This is the U.S. Copyright Office's web portal to pre-register, register and submit for copyright. I have used this for musical works and lyrical work for songwriters and artists. Easy to use navigation and explanation of terms. A great one stop shop to begin the process of copyrighting your material. This is a department of the Library of Congress.
Thank you for sharing this information, Jon. It's great to hear that you found the process to be easy to understand and navigate. The site and the online process definitely simplifies things.
8 During the 112th Congress,
the House and Senate considered two competing measures, the Stop
Online Piracy Act ("SOPA")29 and the Protect IP Act of 2011 ("PIPA").30
SOPA and PIPA were designed to target foreign websites that engage in
copyright violations.31 The bills would allow the Justice Department to seek
court orders requiring U.S. websites to block access to foreign sites offering
pirated material, and would allow copyright owners to seek court orders
preventing such sites from receiving payment services from the U.S.32
8 During the 112th Congress,
the House and Senate considered two competing measures, the Stop
Online Piracy Act ("SOPA")29 and the Protect IP Act of 2011 ("PIPA").30
SOPA and PIPA were designed to target foreign websites that engage in
copyright violations.31 The bills would allow the Justice Department to seek
court orders requiring U.S. websites to block access to foreign sites offering
pirated material, and would allow copyright owners to seek court orders
preventing such sites from receiving payment services from the U.S.32
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he banks could face a civil penalty if they do not strictly abide by the rules laid out in the guidance, said a senior Treasury official, who was not authorized to speak publicly.
Marijuana trafficking is illegal under federal law, and it’s illegal for banks to deal with marijuana sale proceeds under federal law. Only Congress can change these laws. The administration can’t change the law with a memo,
Note 1:
Regardless of this evidence showing that Rohn possessed many
different forms of false identification, the court reversed Rohn's
conviction because the government was unable to show that Rohn
"knowingly possess[ed] with intent to use unlawfully or transfer
unlawfully five or more identification documents"^'' as required by 18
U.S.C. § 1028(a)(3).^^
Note 2:
n unlawful
use because Rohn had not demonstrated a lawful one."^^ The court
stated that the government tried to convict Rohn under a statute that
Congress did not write, and that because the government did not
technically meet all elements of the statute, the conviction had to be overturned. Thus, even though the government had charged an individual who had obviously stolen and used many different identities, the government was unable to convict this individual based on the technical language in the statute.
Note 3:
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed with the Petitioner, holding that the
government must prove that a defendant knew that the "means of
identification" he or she unlawfully transferred, possessed, or used did,
in fact, belong to another person.'**^
Note 4:
Thus, because the government
could not prove that the petitioner technically knew that the identification numbers belonged to other people, the Supreme Court reversed the aggravated identity theft charges.'*'