A new tool created by the American Library Association helps to break down when a work is protected by copyright and when it has slipped into the public domain.

The orphan works bill, killed nearly two years ago after a protest from artists, seems prepared to make a reappearance sometime in the coming days or weeks. Learn what you need to be prepared here.

It’s another wild week for copyright news with everything from politics to zombies and even kilts. To help make sense of it all, Chris and I go through this week’s news with our usual lack of tact.

Two well-known blogs, Zen Habits and The Simple Dollar, announce to great fanfare that they are dedicating all of their content to the public domain. However, caveats and concerns loom in the background.

It’s Monday and and that means it is time for another episode of the Copyright 2.0 show. Once again myself and Chris Matthieu are taking on the past week in copyright law.
This week’s show is, mercifully, a bit shorter than previous ones. We delve into the subject of the public domain as well as [...]