U.S. Copyright law exists to help promote creativity and innovation by providing a framework for protecting a creator's interest in their work so that they might benefit from dissemination of their work to the public. It is a creator's sole right to sell, distribute or create derivatives of their work. Infringement occurs when another party represents or adapts another person's intellectual property as their own without proper permission. That said, within copyright law exist
In probably one of the most interesting copyright debates since the musician Prince and a Pennsylvania mother went toe to toe over a YouTube posting, the artist Richard Prince, has apparently blatantly adapted Instagram postings and created works placed on display in the Frieze Gallery in New York. The Internets have erupted with stories reporting on individual Instagram users selling their own versions of the same prints that Richard Prince sold for $90,000. And, according t
It might seem basic common sense, but more often than not, clients are surprised when I remind them that they need to ensure they have proper permission for reuse of materials, as well as making certain that the rights holder receives proper credit. This is important for many reasons, the least of them so that the reader or observer of the material can refer back to the original source material if they so wish. I came across this the other day in my readings, and found the cr
