Dear Rich: I am writing a martial arts mobile phone app. The app includes text describing the martial arts movements and choreography illust...

Dear Rich: A song was first copyrighted in an “unpublished” form in 1950, and subsequently, in the same year, the same song was copyrighted ...

Dear Rich: As I understand copyright, if I visit a park and take a photo of a statute, I own the copyright to the photo and I can use it in ...

    We love musician biographies and memoirs. (One of our favorites is  Playing the Bass With Three Left Hands  by  Will Carruthers .) Dear ...

Dear Rich: If a beatmaker gives me a song to write lyrics to, my understanding is that based on their intent to have words created for the...

Photo by Mark Marek Photography   Dear Rich: I am building a webpage where visitors can register how much they would pay to see an artis...

Dear Rich: I run a news aggregator that uses RSS feeds to pull in a headline, a small photo and a few lines of text. We pull content from ma...

Dear Rich: How do I go about donating a portion of royalty proceeds from a book to a charity?  If your publisher is amenable, the easiest...

Dear Rich: I read that the government is planning a song database and songwriters who don't register will lose all copyrights. Can you...

19th Century imagery used by abolitionist organizations in  their efforts to turn northern Americans against slavery.  I’m helping tw...

Reed Bontecou’s Portraits of Wounded Soldiers (1865 ) Dear Rich: I have been working on a historical documentary for about two years now...

Dear Rich: I own a Macbook Pro computer that came with the fonts Avenir and Avenir Next in the system. I have used these fonts extensivel...

Dear Rich: Can I legally sell products that I found in a dumpster? The general rule  is that you can keep and dispose of property once it...

Dear Rich: I am developing a mobile educational app using diagnostic x-ray images obtained from free access websites. Are x-rays subject to ...

Dear Rich: I have written regular columns, articles, abstracts and summaries of research that I've done for various publications, most...

Dear Rich: I am looking to license a copyright for a creative process -- a method of calculating something -- that was developed within a ...

Dutch children photographed at Ellis Island Dear Rich: My dad is a fine-arts photographer. His photographs have been exhibited in gal...

Dear Rich:  I recently published a romance novel (as has everyone apparently). I used some liturgical prayers in it, and cited the sou...

Dear Rich: I understand that the unpublished and published works have different fees and filing processes. But when I'm registering a ...

Dear Rich: Can you check out my video and let me know if I can get fair use? We can't tell whether your video qualifies as a fair use...