“The Office proposes this adjustment to make copyright owners whole for any distributions the MLC made based on an erroneous understanding and application of ...

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit partially affirmed a district court’s summary judgment order holding that audiovisual recordings of live concerts do ...

A federal appeals court has overruled a lower court ruling that, if sustained, would have severely hampered the enforceability of free software licenses. The lower court had found that redistributing ...

A copyright is an ownership interest in a creative work that gives the owner exclusive rights to use the work. A small business interested in using an image or a piece of music in its advertising, for ...

You are in negotiations with a copyright owner to obtain a license to her work, which you want to publish, distribute, and/or license yourself. You want to ensure that you have the right to enforce ...

A court in the Netherlands has ruled that a Creative Commons license is binding, in a case brought against a Dutch gossip magazine by an ex-MTV star. This is one of the first times that the ...

In two very recent cases, the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and the Federal Circuit both have delved into the sometimes-murky world of implied copyright licenses, which can arise ...

In the U.S., as in most countries, images are protected by copyright law and international copyright agreements. As the U.S. Copyright Office describes it, every ...

Imagine a world where the dulcet tones of “Inagaddadavida” never graced the airwaves. Gasp you should! According to the artist currently known as, but formerly known as “The Artist Formerly Known as, ...

All software developers should add a copyright license. Why? Because open source licensing is all about granting permission in advance If you want your code to be open source, it needs an OSI-approved ...

Open source makes the technology world go ’round, forming as much as 90% of the modern software stack via frameworks; libraries; databases; operating systems; and countless stand-alone applications.