If you see the phrase images may be subject to copyright, it means that a collection of pictures have legal restrictions on when you can use them without permission. If you generate photos, charts or ...

Once a copyright is created, protection generally lasts for 70 years after the death of the author and in some cases 95 years from publication or 120 years from creation. That’s a long time! After ...

As a business owner or entrepreneur looking for bang-for-your-buck advertising, you know that a short clip of a high-profile hit is a powerful attention-getter. You may have heard of "fair use," a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Paulo Carvão is a Research Fellow at Harvard. Chamath Palihapitiya, former Facebook executive, venture investor and co-host of the ...

A long-running meme at The Verge is that copyright law is the only functional law on the internet — the entire internet is just made of copies, after all, so copyright law has become the go-to ...

The new rule clears up uncertainty about who gets paid streaming royalties when songwriters take back their music rights – a trickier question than it sounds. By ...