Normally when a government extends a piece of copyright law we expect it to be in the favour of commercial interests with ...

Happy Thursday! I’m Nitasha Tiku, The Washington Post’s tech culture reporter, filling in for Will Oremus on today’s Tech Brief. Send tips about AI to: [email protected].

Oct. 12, 1986: Cathleen M. Thomas, 28, left, and Rebecca A. Dowski, 21, were found strangled with their throats slit in the back seat of Thomas' car along the Colonial Parkway. The friends were ...

This means the Smithsonian dedicates the digital asset into the public domain, meaning it is free of copyright restrictions and you can use it for any purpose, free of charge, without further ...

President Trump is asking lawmakers to claw back the $1.1 billion in federal subsidies for public broadcasting that Congress approved earlier this year. His request also includes cuts to foreign aid.

Key takeaways Public domain characters can be used freely in books, films, games, and other creative works without legal restrictions. Characters like Dracula, Frankenstein, and Alice from Alice in ...

Law & Politics Trump Officials Illegally Withheld Museum Funding: Federal Watchdog Here's how the Trump administration is drastically reshaping the arts landscape.

How the public domain offers new life to these poetry classics 2019 marks the first mass copyright expiration in more than two decades, freeing up works like Robert Frost's "Stopping by the Woods ...

Midjourney, Inc. The lawsuit juxtaposes images of copyrighted characters, such as Disney's Homer Simpson, shown above on the right, beside images output by Midjourney, left. In a first-of-its-kind ...

In a first-of-its-kind lawsuit, entertainment companies Disney and Universal are suing AI firm Midjourney for copyright infringement. The 110-page lawsuit, filed Wednesday in a U.S. district court in ...