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…
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…