*Originally published 8/30/2016, updated June 26, 2020. You've created your material and sent it out into the world, whether in a print edition or simply "out there" on your blog or website. You have loyal customers and fans. But what do you do to make certain that someone unscrupulous doesn't take your material, adopt it as their own, and put it out into the world as a competing product? Searching for infringing uses of your images, art, or writing on the web can be a daunti
Artists find inspiration virtually anywhere: the world itself provides queues to messages and stories that need to be told through photography, art, poetry and literature. An existing work might spark a new work or even inspire a statement or criticism of that original work, but artists, photographers and writers need to be aware when their adaptation might indeed cross the line into infringement. A recent article appearing in CNN chronicled one recent case. The artist in que
