Uploading your photos to the web? Protect them all in one fell swoop with “Mass Watermark”.

Better than doing it piecemeal.  Who has time for that?

MORE: On that note: Photography’s growing plagiarism problem.

Predictably: Hollywood Attacks Scholars Who Deny The Evils of Piracy.

The scholars in question here are the authors of a study I blogged about some days ago…

Sample [Music] with Care: Usher, Mark Wahlberg, Run-D.M.C. and More Slapped With Copyright Infringement Lawsuit.

You don’t always need to license someone else’s music to legally use a sample of it in your own tunes.  But in instances in which you do, the consequences of failing to obtain a license could result a big mess.  Always consult an attorney.

Unstoppable: How the Director of ‘Escape From Tomorrow’ Made a Crazy Guerrilla Movie In Disney World – And Got Away With It: “’Escape From Tomorrow’ will be released on October 11 in select theaters and VOD, regardless of whether Disney wanted to take it to court.”

I posted about Escape From Tomorrow and its unique debt to the Fair Use doctrine earlier this week, here.

Word! Copyright’s Role in a Free Press:

Even as technology has reduced the costs of communicating, there are still costs – sometimes significant costs – associated with the creation of important (and, as here, life-saving) works. The question of how to ensure the creation and dissemination of such works is centuries old and is, in fact, one of the primary motivations behind copyright law.

Worth reading the whole story at the link above…