A copyright license is an agreement that allows a person or entity who holds the copyright (the licensor) to assign (or transfer) the copyright to another (the licensee).

Board refers compulsory license question. By Billboard Staff Whether a publisher must license a composition for ringtones or master ringtones under a compulsory ...

“The Office proposes this adjustment to make copyright owners whole for any distributions the MLC made based on an erroneous understanding and application of ...

A copyright is an ownership interest in a creative work that gives the owner exclusive rights to use the work. A small business interested in using an image or a piece of music in its advertising, for ...

A court in the Netherlands has ruled that a Creative Commons license is binding, in a case brought against a Dutch gossip magazine by an ex-MTV star. This is one of the first times that the ...

A statement giving permission to reproduce copyrighted material is a type of copyright license that gives the licensee the right to reproduce copyrighted material -- usually subject to specific ...

REDMOND, Wash., and SAN FRANCISCO — June 20, 2006 — Microsoft Corp. and Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization that offers flexible copyright licenses for creative works, have teamed up to release ...

All software developers should add a copyright license. Why? Because open source licensing is all about granting permission in advance If you want your code to be open source, it needs an OSI-approved ...