A synchronization license (“sync” license) is a license that allows someone to use a musical composition along with a video in an audio-visual work. For example, a songwriter or music publisher would ...

Copyright is a form of intellectual property in which the physical expression of an idea or piece of creative work is legally protected from copying and ...

Many lawsuits that copyright owners have brought against generative AI platforms such as OpenAI are grinding their way through the courts. Meanwhile, in advance of any court decisions, copyright ...

For the last decade, the Congressional debate over copyright law has been in a stalemate. Content companies have pushed for stronger protections, but their efforts have been stopped by a coalition of ...

Recent copyright cases highlight an interesting intersection of two significant tenets of law: a celebrity’s right of publicity in their own image and a photographer’s right to copyright their ...

Video games should be protected as autonomous works, or should at least be contemplated as a separate category of work exclusively for registration purposes, believes José Roberto Herrera of Herrera ...

Does the license for a tattoo belong to the artist who designed it or the person on whose body it appears? That was the question a federal judge took up last week in a landmark copyright lawsuit ...