According to a story in The Los Angeles Times, recent graduate Ryan Stevens sought to put his business degree from Cal State Sacramento to→

According to Gutenberg News every new year since the first copyrights expired, back around 1724, the world has looked forward to the expiration of→

Artist Evan Roth has a radical idea to help let our ideas live long after we die. Taking inspiration from organ donation programs, Roth→

ReadWriteWeb reports that Creative Commons has announced the release of the Public Domain Mark, a tool that will help easily identify those works that→

David Kravets over at Wired reports that Righthaven, the Las Vegas-based copyright troll, may have sued one website too many. The Electronic Frontier Foundation→

Quick, what’s the name of the blanket with sleeves? USA Today Reports that if you said Snuggie, you’d be in good company. But that→

Ponder the difference between the comedian and the musician. Both create and perform works to entertain audiences, but they go about protecting that work→

Every three years the US Copyright Office reviews copyright law and makes revisions and exemptions. Six new rules out from the office will radically→

According to Wired, fledgling Las Vegas-based Righthaven has begun buying out the copyrights to newspaper content for the sole purpose of suing blogs and→

Music legend Ray Charles capitalized on music publishing angle: he began recording a lot of public domain songs, like “America The Beautiful,” and “Lift→

Sister-Diane over at CraftyPod discusses Creative Commons licensing with attorney Martin Ertl and crafter/enthusiast Kim Werker. They talk about why Creative Commons is relevant→

A lucrative patent or a popular copyright can provide a creator’s heirs with solid streams of revenue for decades. Some great artists and inventors→

TechDirt is reporting that last week the International Jack Benny Fan Club got some very bad news. Rather than allow the club with the→

The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved Victoria Espinel’s nomination, paving the way for a full Senate vote to confirm the nation’s first copyright czar,→

Chad Perrin: There are innumerable ways to make money without copyright — and, in many cases, people are already doing so and may not→

The New York Times: The two most precious resources for any small-business owner are time and money. That’s why when the subject of intellectual→

photo credit: Yandle Entrepreneur.com: “The copywriting outline provides a single tool where you record all the details about your product or service that you→

TechDirt: A few months back, we wondered why it was so difficult to opt out of copyright. Soon after that, Creative Commons added its→

ars technica: Creative Commons has officially launched a Web tool to aid content creators who want to publish material under the highly permissive CC0→

ReadWriteWeb: A ray of hope has been passed to Pandora and other web broadcasting services. Pandora founder Tim Westergren issued a “call to arms”→