A common question that crosses our desk: can you legally use a meme in your marketing?  As online business owners, we of course want to use any tool possible to provide quippy and memorable content for our brands. At the same time, we have had instances where clients ran into legal trouble using memes in […]

In the same way that someone’s writings and photographs, that does not necessarily mean that the writer or photographer owns the book.  Copyright law is centered around rules formed by both contracts and copyrights.

Why every tangible work has to be copyrighted Do you want to be able to take actual action against a copycat if they copy your work? Then you must have a registered copyright before the infringement occurs. That’s right: under United States law, if you want to be able to recover what are considered statutory […]