Dear Rich: I plan to assemble and sell a coursepack on writing nonfiction. This coursepack will consist of writing and revising methods glea...

Dear Rich: My teen has drawn several pieces of "fan art," following a challenge to begin with a known character and re-draw it in...

Postcard: Malo-les-Bains - Avenue Kleber, sent 30 April 1915 Dear Rich: We are a specialized online magazine for postcard collectors. From 1...

the queen of residuals photo:angela george (modified) Dear Rich: As I understand it, trademarks, patents, copyrights, and trade secrets are ...

Dear Rich: I am part of an organization that is over 130 years old. One of the founders wrote and published a book in 1899 (in the USA and...

Dear Rich: Does the reproduction of copyrighted material in a grant proposal constitute fair use? Examples might include a statistical c...

Margaret Mead, anthropologist Dear Rich: I'm writing a novel based on a scientific experiment that was well-publicized at the time. Ther...

Dietmar Rabich ,  Borkum, Alter Leuchtturm, Dear Rich: I'm in the middle of planning my estate and I'm doing my own will. How do I i...

Original Photo by  Jeremy Bishop  on   Unsplash Dear Rich: I need to copyright my new film. On-screen, I put “copyright 2021" along wit...

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

Speaking of the public domain, the Public Domain Review has an informative essay (“ The Mark of the Beast ”) about the first anti-vaxxers De...

Dear Rich: I plan to record an entire episode of a Netflix series through a webcam (therefore seriously depreciating its visual value) and...

Dear Rich: We are filming a travel series with a professional surfer highlighting important cultural and historic locations. One location is...

Dear Rich: Which (if any) US postage stamp images are in the public domain? I have read that stamps issued prior to 1978 are in the publ...

Dear Rich: I want to copyright a report I researched and wrote and hope to sell to a museum.  My report includes my collection of 19th-centu...

Dear Rich: We are an  anti-human trafficking  nonprofit creating a team-oriented fundraiser for educational purposes. Could "fair use&q...

Dear Rich: I'm about to submit a copyright application and have a question about whether or not a song is considered published. What exa...

Dear Rich: My band released a CD in 2005, and we never filed Form SR or PA for the album and underlying works. I am planning a vinyl reissue...

Dear Rich: I bought several $1 squishy animals and have taken pictures of them and shared the pictures with friends. If I use these picture...

Dear Rich: If a movie falls into the public domain, are all of the individual images in it also public domain? What if the image is of a mov...