Top of page
Posted by: Steve Andreadis
Aditi Sreenivas, a Virtual Student Federal Service intern, describes what she learned and experienced during her time with the U.S. Copyright Office.
Posted in: Copyright, Copyright Office Presents, engage your creativity, fair use, Inside the Copyright Office, literature, photography, Uncategorized, video
Posted by: Nicole McNew Chen
Whether you're teaching young students just starting out or preparing older students for life beyond high school, incorporating copyright concepts into your lesson plans can help engage a student's creativity and foster an appreciation for the importance of protecting creative works. To get you started, here are six concepts that will help students better understand copyright.
Posted in: Copyright, copyright in education, engage your creativity, fair use, Uncategorized
Posted by: Steve Andreadis
The following is a guest post by Mary Daniel, summer 2020 law clerk in the Office of Policy and International Affairs. Mary is a third year at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law. The Halloween season is the time of year for horror movies and scary stories. However, sometimes it’s the horror …
Posted in: Copyright, fair use, film, historical, literature
Posted by: Holland Gormley
The following is a guest post by David Welkowitz, attorney-advisor in the Office of the General Counsel. As the spread of COVID-19 causes schools—particularly colleges and universities—to switch to distance education, it is a good time to review an important part of the educational landscape: copyright. Don’t let the word copyright alarm you; copyright law …
Posted in: Copyright, fair use, legislation, Uncategorized
Posted by: Steve Andreadis
A new Copyright Office video details how you can share material you find on internet without infringing on other's copyright.
Posted in: Copyright, fair use, Uncategorized, video
Posted by: George Thuronyi
The following is a guest post by Emma Kleiner, Barbara A. Ringer Program fellow. Can a gossip website use copyrighted images of celebrities without first obtaining a license? Is an author allowed to incorporate elements from a Dr. Seuss book into his own manuscript? You can find clues to answer these questions–and many others–in the …