In our last post, we addressed the legal implications of using architecture or a landmark in a painting or similar artistic work. This month, we turn to the issue of…
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Do you hear that? D.J.s are dusting off their turntables…florists are snipping away at stems…wedding season is upon us. Soon, your mailbox will begin filling up with those telltale envelopes-within-envelopes. I…
Law.com recently posted an article in which Sarah Feingold, in-house counsel for the popular e-commerce site, Etsy, talked about her own creative background, the legal issues Etsy and its users face,…
Check out this post by intellectual-property blog PHOSITA. It seems as though football fever has recently encompassed more than just the playoffs: It’s NCAA versus NFL, as Texas A&M are…
How lucky we are to have the Internet nowadays to market our creative wares — whether our song or drawing or poem. But with this new marketing frontier comes a…
I was recently introduced to the world of design-based business owners when I wrote an article on copyright tips for the popular design blog Design*Sponge. What a nice bunch of…
Art imitates life, or so they say, but when does art imitating life as captured in a photo become copyright infringement? I was a college newspaper editor when Kurt Cobain…