Cartoons can be funny, but the copyright laws that protect them are serious business. Cartoons receive the same protection under the law as any other creative expression, such as books ...

Things are getting serious at Twitter when it comes to humour as it has been discovered that the micro-blogging site is deleting copies of funny tweets on copyright grounds. For people like ...

There’s a new Joker movie coming out, but you might not get a chance to see it because copyright is broken. I have no idea if The People’s Joker is a good movie — thanks to its cancelation ...

Here's how FunnyJunk.com's business operates: Gather funny pictures from around the internet Host them on FunnyJunk.com Slather them in advertising If someone claims copyright infringement ...

The actor gets a judge to declare his copyright over a character featured in a 2010 Funny or Die video. By Eriq Gardner Former Legal Editor-at-Large Although the "Simpsons" voice actor took a pay ...

In an attempt to combat copyright-related issues on YouTube, creators have started adding self-sung songs behind funny clips they wish to shoot a reaction video on. Reaction videos, typically ...

The "Funny Girl" creators later signed a deal with ... which she claimed she could do so pursuant to a federal copyright law, 17 U.S.C. §304(c), which says that after a period of 56 years ...