Instagram Business Accounts and Copyright: The Licensing Gap Nobody Talks About Instagram's approach to music licensing creates a peculiar paradox: the platform offers brands access to thousands of popular songs through its in-app music picker, yet using those same tracks for commercial purposes can expose companies to copyright infringement lawsuits.

Copyright Lasts a Lifetime and Beyond Copyright outlives most of us. In the United States, it usually lasts for the author’s life plus 70 years. That is a huge span of time.

Your dress sketch goes viral on TikTok. Orders spike. Then, within weeks, your pattern shows up on big-box racks and knockoff sites. Sales drop. Critics say “trends move fast,” but you know what happened.

The VARA lawsuit SRipLaw filed in federal court against country music star Upchurch has caught the attention of the music, art and legal worlds. News reports have caught the key points of the Visual Artists Rights Act, while social media have picked up the conversation.

TMZ, Pitchfork, BET and others quickly report on SRipLaw copyright infringement filing  'KIDS SEE GHOSTS' USED MY VOICE...Where's My Cut, Bros?  Kanye West, Kid Cudi & Ty Dolla $ign Sued Over "Kids See Ghosts" Sample  Kanye West's hit collab with Ty Dolla $ign and Kid Cudi left out another featured artist ...

Kevin Liles, a photographer in Atlanta, is suing Brian Kemp’s campaign and the Georgia Republican Party for their use of images Liles took of Stacey Abrams. 

Ring in the new year and ring in the public domain! Click here.  After a twenty year hiatus, tomorrow will finally see the 95 year long copyrights of works released in 1923 expire.

The American Bar Association Journal Magazine reports on our appeal in the case of Pohl v. Officecite here.

As a photographer, you know that it takes a lot of work to take that perfect picture.  For some of you photography is a way of living, your daily job, and the means for paying your bills.  

The Wall Street Journal just published an article entitled Fake Goods on Alibaba Hurt U.S. Small Businesses: Despite Jack Ma’s pledge to champion U.S. small firms, many struggle to get counterfeits removed from Taobao, which landed back on U.S.