Copyright means you may need permission to put photos of your own furnished room online
One of the life’s certainties is that copyright maximalism will continue to encourage absurd rulings by complaisant courts. Here’s a rather spectacular case from Germany. It involves a…
Warhol should have said: In the future, every artist will be sued for alleged copyright infringement
A few weeks ago, a Walled Culture blog post looked at the spate of lawsuits over alleged plagiarism in the world of music. Since the root of the…
An unprecedented loss of digital culture looms thanks to copyright; here’s how to avoid it
A few weeks ago, we wrote about copyright’s absurdly long term, which typically lasts for 70 years after a creator’s death. That it makes it hard for other…