If you’ve ever wondered what is in those terms of service most people click straight past, this is your chance. I take a look at the TOS on seven different video sharing sites and break down what rights they claim in your work, who has those rights and how to exit the agreement.

Creative Commons has been a part of my copyright plan for five years now but, as I look back over the past half decade, my excitement and enthusiasm is tinged by disappointment and unanswered questions.

Michigan attorney Carol Ruth Shepherd points, in a recent article, highlights some of the dangers of using the DMCA to remove allegedly infringing work and analyzes several issues citizens may face when protecting their works online.

When the popular Flickr user Rebekka discovered that her images were being sold on iStockPhoto, she decided to turn her story into a cautionary tale for other photographers and artists.

RightsAgent is a new system designed to help you license your content to the world, both for profit and non-profit purposes. But is the system worth entrusting your content to?

The petition against PhotoBucket has been growing at a rapid pace. Here’s a discussion as to what is happening and what the immediate future plans are.

Artists and photographers, tired of rampant infringement of their work on PhotoBucket, are circulating a petition to push the service to change some of its practices.

Considering that my predictions for 2007 fell somewhere between “mixed” and “unmitigated disaster” I am almost loathe to try again. However, in the spirit of the season, I almost can not control myself.
So, with that in mind, I’m taking a look at the year ahead with seven new predictions about what is in store for [...]

It was this time last year that I began to compile my list of predictions for content theft and plagiarism in the new year. Invariably, some of the predictions were right, others were wrong and some split the difference.
So, before I look forward into 2008, I want to take a moment and look back over [...]

A presentation by Jason Calacanis at LeWeb3 earlier this month drew attention the problem of Web “pollution” as a threat to the Internet itself.
According to Calacanis, Usenet is an case study on what is currently happening to the Web. In his speech, he stated that Usenet, ten to fifteen years ago, was a very [...]