YouTube can help unknown musicians and performers gain an audience — but it can also create tension when a performer like Michelle Phan, who is now snared in a copyright dispute,… Read more »
Goal highlights are the most exciting, shareable and spontaneous moments of the World Cup. But ESPN and others are using copyright law to remove them from social media. Read more »
The Authors Guild has lost yet another legal battle in a long-running dispute over who can access digital copies of library books created under Google’s book-scanning program. Read more »
A closely watched parody case turns out to have resulted in a potential $1 million payout — but, as with everything else in the case, there’s more than meets the eye. Read more »
The outcome of the Aereo case could turn on whether a majority of the justices can get comfortable distinguishing Aereo from Cablevision, allowing them to craft an opinion that finds Aereo… Read more »
Toy maker GoldieBlox is using mass media to empower little girls to pursue science and engineering. But what about the artists whose songs the company is using to spread its message? Read more »
Images are everywhere on the internet these days and some see them as a shortcut to viral fame. The case of wildly popular @HistoryInPics raises familiar questions about how to draw… Read more »
A studio published a Times’ critic’s tweet about Inside Lleywn Davis without permission — despite what some are saying, neither Twitter or the critic can do anything about it. Read more »
A famous rap group says in a new court filing that GoldieBlox, a maker of girls toys, had no right to use its song as part of a clever marketing campaign… Read more »
What has gotten lost in the Beastie Boys vs. GoldieBlox hysteria is that fair use is an important principle when it comes to copyright, and we would be better off as… Read more »