What Does It Mean When Art Is Public Domain?

Over a few hundred years, real stories about secretive agents developed into the legend of the ninja. Learn how this myth captured the world's imagination -- and about the work being done at the world's first International Ninja Research Center -- in this episode of BrainStuff, b ...  Show more

The French word 'bourgeois' originally just meant a middle-class town dweller, but it's taken on a lot of different (and often derogatory) connotations over the centuries, including in the English slang term 'bougie'. Learn more in this episode of BrainStuff, based on this articl ...  Show more

Rebecca Field and Lee Curtis discuss the application of copyright to the world of fashion. Why is it harder to enforce copyright in fashion items in the US compared to the EU? How are fashion items protected by copyright in the UK?Timestamps:2:16 - Copyright might naturally be th ...  Show more

Copyright law has been around since 1710. Back then it only applied to books. Now, it covers music, sport, film, television, video games, anything really. It was also much easier to enforce in the days when people couldn't reproduce things all the time. That all started to change ...  Show more

The foundations of modern copyright law were laid on 10th April 1710, when the Statute of Anne came into effect. Before the Act, anyone could copy and sell books without giving a penny to the author; now, writers would be protected from being completely exploited by (British) pub ...  Show more

At-a-Glance: Can I Use Copyrighted Music in a Podcast?Possibly. But it's complicated, and often, expensive.For starters – who actually owns the song? Ownership in music is complex.And even if you did spend time and money getting the rights to a song, your show may be removed from ...  Show more