Tedium Highlight in Copyright: The traditional song "Happy Birthday" is definitive proof that just because a song is traditional doesn't mean it isn't copyrighted. 

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Tag results: Copyright

Create For Yourself

With disruption hitting the media industry acutely in 2024, now is the time to lean into owning your creative work. Have a say in your creative destiny.

Floppy Copy Classics

A few copy-protection schemes, of varying levels of success, you’ve possibly run into over the years. Don’t lose your code wheel.

Trapped, Kept

If a company decides not to do anything with a beloved brand or product, does the public have any recourse? Depends on if the product is physical, honestly.

Public Domain Disney

Disney is no friend of the public domain, but in honor of the public domain finally expanding, we wanted to appreciate Walt Disney’s contributions to it.

Another Year of Tedium

The state of our Tedium in 2019 is a pivotal one if you love the idea of creating things online. Let’s talk about why—and what we can do to keep it safe.

Symbiotic Infringement

Pondering the shutdown of a YouTube user who uploaded lots of John Oliver videos over a multi-year period—and probably made John Oliver more popular.

When Copyright Goes Copywrong

The rigid nature of copyright law during the early years of the film industry created a surprisingly robust cottage industry around public domain films.

Eye Of The Tiger

Tiger Electronics' LCD-based games shouldn't have been as successful as they were against the Game Boy. But the company was anything but a failure. Why?

Purple Copyright Eater

When Prince died, he left behind a massive legacy of music. He left behind an equally massive legacy of copyright enforcement. Here's why.

Worst. Birthday. Ever.

The traditional song "Happy Birthday" is definitive proof that just because a song is traditional doesn't mean it isn't copyrighted.

Bootleg This Issue

Bootlegged movies and music are fairly common online these days, but it was a guy who worked at an opera who got things going.
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