"... the social, digital world is one where the biggest media companies have a much lighter touch, and where the content creators with the broadest reach will be the ones who care the least about protecting their copyrights."

"TL;DR version: Last year, I was threatened with a lawsuit over the pixel art album cover for Kind of Bloop. Despite my firm belief that I was legally in the right, I settled out of court to cut my losses. This ordeal was very nerve-wracking for me and my family, and I've had trouble writing about it publicly until now. "

"There is no X number of words that the law sets as necessarily all right to copy or not all right, as you will see in the judge's ruling. It's case by case, so fair use is situational."

"The fact that no one (including Brunell) ever claimed copyright on charts tells us that their content was common knowledge by the time they made it to print in the 1890s. If anyone had a significant case that they owned the intellectual property of the charts, surely they would have come forward considering the money they could have made."

"It really is a shame that so many people’s understanding of creative work -- and why you’d want to control and protect it as your own -- starts and ends with the mention of money." (Echoes of the section in "You Are Not a Gadget" on what's wrong with creative commons.)

"Keep an eye on the 'hot news' debate. As pressure continues to mount on the news business, expect the drumbeat for additional rights to grow louder in DC." Contemplating a permissions-based system.

The Wrap vs. Newser, summed up by the Atlantic Wire.

"If you care about the future of books, you need to understand the Google Book Settlement." Hits all the major points.

Are tweets protected by copyright? Short answer, "No." (But what about a body of tweets?)

Reblogging, concerns. How excerpts are being handled.

Mark Cuban wants to know. I'd say yes, and that the real question concerns fair use.

Another source of worry for publishers online: "Now that the Semantic Web is no longer just a research project, if someone owns the taxonomy you're using and changes it up on you, what rights do you have in the matter?"

"Monitoring the legal climate for Internet activity." Offers helpful copyright and fair use info.

Neat tool for determining (possible) copyright issues