How Is Fashion Protected by Copyright Law?
This week, you may have seen photographs and videos of long runways where models donned the season’s latest trends and styles. It’s Fashion Week 2022– the time of year when […]
How Instagram Changed Its Embedding Feature—and What That Means for Photographers and Publishers
In mid-December of 2021, Instagram quietly let it be known that it had added a feature to its service that allows users to disable its commonly misused and misunderstood embedding […]
Yo Ho! A Copyright Pirate’s Life In 2021
Since the passing of the original Copyright Act in 1790, developments in copyright law in the United States have been influenced by many civil disputes—lawsuits where one private party sues […]
How to Legally Use Images, Videos, and Other Content in Blog Posts
With hundreds of millions of blog posts uploaded to the internet every year, it’s inevitable that some will violate copyright laws. But bloggers can greatly reduce instances of infringement through […]
What Do These Acronyms Mean? A Beginner’s Guide to Acronyms Used in the Copyright Universe
Creators, lawyers, and industry executives alike all use acronyms—those sometimes-ambiguous combinations of capital letters that have become so pervasive that oftentimes even the people who frequently use them have forgotten […]
YouTube Infringement Tools Are All Foam and No Beer for Small Creators (Part 2)
In Part 1 of this blog post, we reviewed several YouTube copyright infringement tools that are available to certain copyright owners. These tools included Content ID, Copyright Match, the Content […]
YouTube Infringement Tools Are All Foam and No Beer for Small Creators (Part 1)
Everything about YouTube is BIG. It is far and away from the most widely used video-sharing platform and, according to SEMRUSH, is the second-most visited website—with the most-visited being its […]
Cultural Misappropriation and Copyright Take Center Stage in #BlackTikTokStrike
Last month, Black creators across TikTok started the #BlackTikTokStrike, protesting what many would describe as the cultural misappropriation of Black art by white social media influencers. Specifically, Black dancers and […]
Celebrating America’s Independence through Music and Copyright
As most are aware, the Fourth of July is the celebration of the political separation of the 13 original American colonies from England, which was marked by the signing of […]
The Difference Between Plagiarism and Copyright Infringement
There are many differences between plagiarism and copyright infringement, yet it can be easy to confuse these concepts. While both plagiarism and copyright infringement can be characterized as the improper […]