Every year, many classical creative works enter th...  ...s enter the public domain on January 1st under US copyright law. Most are forgotten and forgettable, but some...

Did you know that it is illegal to photograph the...  ...cial purposes. The reasoning is bound up in weird copyright laws.[https://youtu.be/M16CGK1T9MM] (YouTube link...  ...)It never occurred to me that a building could be copyrighted . Sure, I understand that you can't just design an...

Sure, movies can be copyrighted , but did you know monsters can, too? And even a p...  ...ation and The Walking Dead. It all has to do with copyright .[https://youtu.be/UI1kqlt4vkA] (YouTube link)YouT...

Photographer Carol Highsmith began donating her wo...  ...ndation This is America! But Highsmith received a copyright infringement notice and a bill for $120 from Lice...

Intellectual property owners have to walk a fine l...  ...engagement and protecting their franchise against copyright infringement. The various entities behind the 50-...  ...ube. On the one hand, Axanar is a blatant case of copyright infringement. On the other hand, so are smaller f...

(Photo: Library of Congress)In 1910, Samuel Clemen...  ...even while dead--and therefore sued Hutchings for copyright violation. Thus began one of the strangest copyright lawsuits in American history. Parker Higgins writ...  ...publish all of his books? Finally, even if those copyright...

Adolf Hitler’s book Mein Kampf entered the public domain at the beginning of 2016, because Hitler’s been dead for 70 years. That's a long time. Who was profiting from the book’s publication all those ye...

(Image: Bill Donahue)Players are going to play and...  ...hythm and blues musician, recently sued Swift for copyright infringement, claiming that her song "Shake It Of...

In 1966, Hal Warren made a movie called Manos: The...  ...a sequel to Manos, emerged to get involved in the copyright saga. You can read the whole sordid story of Mano...

In 2011, photographer David Slater was in Indonesi...  ...elfie. It was a viral sensation. But who owns the copyright ? Wikipedia argues that no one does. The war for t...  ...entified as 6-year-old Naruto.Last year, the U.S. Copyright Office issued an updated compendium of its polici...  ...ding a section stipu...