Event Recording
November 5, 2025
The Anthropic settlement highlights the importance of timely registration with the U.S. Copyright Office. Although your work is automatically copyrighted when you create it, you can only seek damages for infringement if the work is officially registered. Join us for a discussion of copyright registration with David Newhoff and Steven Tepp, co-founders of the copyright management service RightsClick.
Authors Guild CEO Mary Rasenberger will introduce the discussion. Moderated by chief legal officer Kevin Amer.
This webinar will address:
Building on his background in film production and communications, David Newhoff is a widely respected advocate of creators’ rights. Since 2011, he has written over 1000 articles on the blog The Illusion of More and elsewhere, endorsing strong copyright rights and questioning the tech industry’s assault on those rights. He has been cited by scholars, the U.S. Copyright Office, the press, and the creative community. In 2020, he published the book Who Invented Oscar Wilde? The Photograph at the Center of Modern American Copyright.
Steven Tepp’s extensive background in IP law and policy began as an attorney for the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, after which he served as senior counsel for Policy and International Affairs at the U.S. Copyright Office and then as Chief Intellectual Property Counsel for the Global Intellectual Property Center of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Before co-founding RightsClick, he started the IP consultancy Sentinel Worldwide, and taught copyright law at George Washington University Law School.
With the generous support of our donors, the Authors Guild Foundation is able to offer our educational programs for free to all interested writers. If you’d like to support the Foundation, please click here.
Must-Know Copyright Basics for Authors
Article
Copyright Registration for Authors: Fundamentals and Benefits
Fair Use for Authors: What You Need to Know About Using Copyrighted Materials in Your Work
