Copyright

Do you find Shakespeare’s plays a little too complex for your modern understanding? If so, there is help for you. MakeUseOf reports on Sparknotes’s “No Fear Shakespeare,” screen-readable versions of many...

France is currently considering an omnibus bill, the Digital Republic Bill, designed to cover a host of policy issues in digital, internet and technology areas - including two dear to TeleRead readers: encryption...

As already reported in TeleRead, the original text of the diary of Anne Frank is the subject of a legal tussle this year over public domain rights. With the diary text...

The New York Public Library now offers more than 187,000 free high-resolution images of everything from skyscrapers to old railroad menus. What  treasure trove for self-publishers and others! Benefit from public domain goodies for your research or legal reproduction in your...

If you've ever wondered what a library book cake looks like, you can stop. In fact, here are 24 other book-inspired cakes. And now a challenge to TeleRead community members. Would anyone...

Remember the “good old days” when anyone could buy an e-book from anywhere? That was the state of things in the early days of the e-book, before the publishers were paying...

A Shakespearean-quality work will result if enough monkeys or similar creatures---humans included?---peck away randomly on typewriters. That's more or less the infinite monkey theorem. Now some reality. Under a recent court ruling, it...

Has there ever been a piece of legislation less loved than the Digital Millennium Copyright Act? We e-book fans dislike it for its anti-circumvention provision, of course—the part of it that...

Since everybody else is reporting on this story, I might as well venture an opinion. A couple of years ago, a photographer had a monkey steal his camera and end up...

Well, here’s a great birthday present for someone. In a summary judgment, a judge declared that “Happy Birthday” may be in the public domain. This does not necessarily mean, as some...