YouTube wants you to start using other people’s content – well, within reason. The Google-owned video site launched a new feature yesterday that gives users access to more than 10,000 videos under ...

If you want to use photographs, graphics, or other content without paying a fee or by paying a one-time fee rather than an ongoing royalty, it is important that you understand the law to avoid ...

Any recent law school graduate or intellectual property attorney has likely come across Creative Commons, the California-based non-profit founded by Lawrence Lessig, Hal Abelson and Eric Eldred.

An organization that has defined an alternative to copyrights by filling in the gap between full copyright, in which no use is permitted without permission, and public domain, where permission is not ...

Any work that is not a students', including text, music or images, if not cited is by definition plagiarized. In the worlds of academia, press, or other creative industries that use source information ...

Nonprofit Creative Commons, which spearheaded the licensing movement that allows creators to share their works while retaining copyright, is now preparing for the AI era. On Wednesday, the ...

Busted! You copied an image on your blog that you saw on the internet. You didn’t think you were doing anything wrong but it turns out you were. The image was copyrighted and now the copyright holder ...

Windows: I use a lot of Creative Commons licensed images and usually find my images directly through Flickr's CC search or using the CC Search webapp on the Creative Commons web site. Both of those ...