Max Collins, the lead singer of the band Eve 6 has penned a great piece for Popula, noting that owning media is now an act of countercultural defiance. Specifically, he’s speaking out against…

Though the music stream will be back soon, Lofi Girl says false DMCA takedowns are "an underlying problem on the platform."

The beloved character was created in 1928 and the cartoon is widely regarded as a pioneer in animation

The creator of the popular Bored Ape Yacht Club non-fungible tokens has sued an artist in Los Angeles federal court, accusing him of selling copycats that are confusing potential buyers.

One of the most popular holiday songs of all time is being legally challenged by a country music songwriter who claims copyright infringement over “All I Want For Christmas Is You.”

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We’ve talked a fair bit about Australia’s ridiculous “News Bargaining Code,” which is literally nothing more than a tax on Facebook and Google for sending traffic to media organisations, paid to Murdoch.

One of the central “justifications” for copyright is that it is indispensable if creativity is to be viable. Without it, we are assured, artists would starve. This ignores the fact that artists cre…

Publishers are using copyright law as a battering ram to assert corporate control over the public good.

Over a decade ago, we wrote about how Google had to edit out the Australian Aboriginal flag from a logo because of copyright concerns. An 11-year-old girl had won a contest to design a Google logo for Australia Day, and her logo included a simple...

Making scientific research free to read could bolster collaboration and research on solving problems such as pandemics, climate change and more. The UN has taken a step towards realising this goal.

At the start of each year, on January 1st, a new crop of works enter the public domain. Find our highlights of what lies in store for 2022 here.

Lawsuits against downloaders were meant to scare people into buying CDs again. However in the late 2000s a pair of cases went way too far, with even the judge calling the outcome "monstrous and shocking." Interestingly, the fight against digital music began as early as the 1980s. Enjoy the full history of the RIAA vs digital music!

Although the COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked terrible suffering across the world, we are fortunate that we already have several vaccines that have been shown to be highly effective in reducing the number of deaths and hospitalization rates. Discovering...

A ResearchGate motion asks the court to open the door for something big: communicating about the litigation with the actual authors of the articles posted to ResearchGate. Imagine that!

The librarian of Congress has provided a new exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that will let people repair optical drives on video game consoles. The new rule will also allow users to perform "diagnosis, maintenance, and repair" of other types of software-enabled devices marketed to consumers.

Increasingly, books are something that libraries do not own but borrow from the corporations that do.

At the US Court of Federal Claims, software company Bitmanagement requests $155 million in copyright infringement damages from the US Govt.

A class action suit alleges that Instagram is liable for fostering copyright infringement on a massive scale.

As music artists and executives are clamoring to strategize how best to approach the emerging market, so are their lawyers.