The article, based on Prof. Ginsburg's Melville B. Nimmer Memorial Lecture, is here; the Introduction: Much American copyright rhetoric vaunts… ...

It’s easy to find free images online once you know where (and how) to look. Here, we’ll show you the best ways to search for copyright-free images that you can use for other projects.

When not designing album covers for major record labels, Stephen Byram teaches Collage Improv (Course Number: ILC-3422-OL), a class where continuing education students are tasked with minimal planning ...

Boiled down, any public domain use of the original Mickey cannot be perceived as coming from Disney, Ms. Ginsburg explained. This protection is strong, she added, because the character, even in ...

On January 1, 2024, an early version of Disney’s mascot, featured in the 1928 short film, “Steamboat Willie,” entered the public domain for the first time.

In the 1990s, the U.S. government limited what young people could see online, but lost a court fight challenging those rules. Now it’s happening again.