It can be tempting to incorporate content, images, music, or videos that others have created into one’s own project, so cooperative staff must be mindful of the legal principles that govern what is and is not permissible with respect to…

The rise of digitally transmitted content such as eBooks, mp3s, and digital movies has threatened traditional notions about whether consumers actually own what they buy, and whether they will be entitled to resell or otherwise dispose of their downloaded purchases…

The proposed Google Book Settlement is arguably one of the hottest copyright topics of 2009. After years of legal wrangling between Google and the Author’s Guild and publisher groups over Google’s unauthorized digitization, indexing, and display of portions of copyrighted…