Two iconic book covers that later became the posters for the film adaptations Dear Rich: My company is wanting to hire an illustrator to do...

Dear Rich: A song was first copyrighted in an “unpublished” form in 1950, and subsequently, in the same year, the same song was copyrighted ...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: I have a website that helps people determine whether jewelry and gemstones are natural or synthetic. I am redoing the site and wa...

Dear Rich: I want to use a police plane crash accident photo in my book. It was released to the press and has been published in many news o...

Types of Creative Commons licenses Dear Rich: I reproduced a Creative Commons photograph on my blog.  The photographer posted the picture to...

Dear Rich: I was wondering how compulsory licensing fits with exclusive licensing. In other words, if a song is exclusively licensed for a ...

Dear Rich: If I'm provided with a registration number for a visual art's copyright, how can I check its image? I have tried search...

Interior Entrance to the Department of Interior Dear Rich: Do we need any kind of release to use a photo of an interior entrance in a new an...

Dear Rich: Playboy Rights & Permissions recently denied us permission to use a Playboy cartoon in a print only, low number of copies, s...

Dear Rich: As the representative of a particular (living) artist, I was recently contacted by the organizer of an exhibition in which origi...

Dear Rich: I am a composer looking to write an opera celebrating the life and work of British Sign Language poet, Dorothy Miles. I am strugg...

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 ...

Dear Rich: My teenage son has been streaming music on various digital platforms. Does he need to file taxes on the money he has generated? T...

Dear Rich, I created a listserv on my account at google groups. Someone on the list has been posting not only links to online newspapers bu...

Dear Rich: If I have the licensing for songs to record and distribute and want to use the same recording as part of a video, do I need to pa...

Dear Rich: I have an album project where I have two "traditional" songs that are being performed in an original manner. Can I list...

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...