I've often contemplated that sometime in the near future, the president of the united states will have grown up listening to snoop dog. While I don't expect gin&juice to be bumping from the white house windows anytime soon, it seems like future presidents are going to have an entirely different perspective on these matters. Whether that translates into change, well, I don't know.

Why does folk music collector Alan Lomax have a copyright interest in “Takeover” by Jay-Z?

The Unlicense is a template for disclaiming copyright interest in software you've written; in other words, it is a template for dedicating your software to the public domain. It combines a copyright waiver patterned after the very successful public domain SQLite project with the no-warranty statement from the widely-used MIT/X11 license.

Some very basic facts about copyright for content creators