A client slides an NDA across the table before you’ve even talked money. Most are harmless and worth signing – but some quietly hand away your rights, your future work, or years of your career. Here’s how to tell the difference.
A brand slides into your DMs with a “quick collab.” Before you post anything, get it in writing. Here’s the plain-language contract every content creator should have – deliverables, payment, usage rights, exclusivity, and the ownership clause that decides who really controls your video.
Someone reposted your video, reel, or song without asking. Here’s exactly which form to use on YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram to get it taken down – plus what to do when the platform drags its feet.
Trademark, copyright, patent – people use the words interchangeably, but they protect completely different things. Here’s the plain-language map so you can tell which one your work actually needs (often it’s more than one).
A plain-language guide to the NO FAKES Act: the proposed federal law that would give every creator a right over AI-generated clones of their voice and likeness.
Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion for using pirated books to train its AI. Here’s who qualified, what a claim was worth, and what the whole thing means for you.
It was billed as the case that would decide whether AI companies can train on your work. Then the UK court handed down its verdict — and the headlines said Getty lost. But the real story is more useful, and more nuanced, than any headline. Here’s Getty v. Stability AI in plain English: what Getty actually claimed, why it mostly lost in the UK, why the US case is far from over, and what all of it means for you as a creator.
A man built an AI, told the Copyright Office the AI made a picture entirely on its own, and asked to register the machine as the author. The government said no, and in March 2025 a federal appeals court agreed: under US law, a copyright needs a human author. But the case is far narrower — and far more useful to you — than the scary headline suggests. Here’s the plain-English version, and exactly what it changes for creators who use AI tools.
Your name, your face, your voice — in the eyes of the law, they’re not just personal. They’re a form of property you own, and AI has made that ownership more valuable and more vulnerable than ever. Here’s a plain-English guide to the right of publicity in 2026: what it protects, why you don’t have to be famous, the new laws written specifically for the AI era, and how to actually protect and even license your own identity.
AI can now put your face in a video you never filmed and your voice in words you never said. So can anyone legally do that? Here’s a plain-English guide to your deepfake likeness rights in 2026 — the protections you already have, the new federal law that changed things, and exactly what to do if a fake of you shows up.