Buying an NFT almost never buys you the copyright to the art — you get a token that points at it. Here’s the plain-language difference between owning the token, owning the artwork, and owning the copyright, and what minting actually does to your rights.
A game mod is legally a derivative work built on someone else’s game — so it lives or dies on the game’s license agreement, what assets you reuse, and whether you touch the copy protection. Here’s the plain-language line between the mod that ships and the mod that gets a takedown or a cease-and-desist.
Drawing your favorite character or writing a story in someone else’s world is technically infringement — but most of it survives because rights-holders tolerate it. Here’s the plain-language line between the fan work that gets left alone and the fan work that gets you a takedown, a cease-and-desist, or worse.
Every library you pull off GitHub or npm comes with strings attached. Here’s the plain-language compliance workflow indie developers can actually follow — how to check a license before you add a dependency, track your whole dependency tree, avoid the copyleft trap, and ship the attribution you legally owe.
Yes, your code is copyrighted automatically the moment you write it — but that’s only the start. Here’s a plain-language guide for solo developers on what software copyright actually covers, how it differs from patents and trade secrets, and why registering (and a few smart contracts) turns weak, invisible protection into something you can actually enforce.
Grabbing code off GitHub isn’t automatically free to use however you like. Here’s a plain-language guide to the big open-source licenses — MIT, Apache 2.0, and the GPL family — what each one actually requires of you, and how to pick and comply without accidentally handing away your own code.
As AI-generated images flood the internet, a new technical standard is quietly becoming the way to prove where a piece of content actually came from. Here’s what C2PA and Content Credentials are, how the cryptographic “nutrition label” works, and what it means for you as a creator trying to prove your work is real — and yours.
The record labels sued Suno and Udio over how their AI music generators were trained — and by 2026 the case has splintered into settlements, licensing deals, and holdouts. Here’s what the AI music lawsuits are really about, what’s happened so far, and what it means for you as a musician or creator using these tools.
AI companies need enormous amounts of text, images, music, and data to train their models — and a growing number are finally paying for it. Here’s the plain-language guide to licensing your work to AI: who’s paying, how the deals work, what to watch in the fine print, and realistic ways a solo creator or small business can actually get a check.
When the news says “the Anthropic case,” it could mean any of four completely different lawsuits – one already settled for $1.5 billion, three still being fought. Here’s how to tell them apart, why the docket number is the only reliable way to know which is which, and what each one means for creators.