April 15, 2019

DMCA Takedown - Part 1

You're scrolling through Instagram and suddenly you see your own artwork looking back at you. "Hey, wait!" you think...

March 18, 2019

Think Before You Shoot

Dear people of the world, please don't send nude photos of yourself to another person, and please, don't let someone take nude photos of you...

June 30, 2016

The sound of love purrs like a stallion, all 12 cylinders aimed at arousin' An open road, a banked turn No distraction...

July 1, 2015

Mention copyrightable works and you probably think of literary works. By far the most frequently protected of the eight categories of...

June 17, 2015

There are two underlying requirements for a work to be protected by United States copyright law. The work must be (1) Original, and it must...

June 3, 2015

When the founding fathers wrote the Constitution, they included the Article 1, Section 8 copyright provision, which resembles the Statute of...

May 7, 2015

How did early authors and printers share and profit from their work without it being stolen? Where does copyright law come from? The first...

April 22, 2015

Imagine if J.K. Rowling spent 17 years of her life writing the Harry Potter series just to see it made available online for free to whomever...